Hayes gives ASECS presidential address

Julie Candler Hayes, professor of French and dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, gave the presidential plenary lecture on April 5 during the annual meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

Hayes was elected vice president of ASECS in 2011 and served as the organization’s president in 2012-13. The topic of her lecture, which stems from an ongoing book project on 17th and 18th-century women writers, was “Philosophical About Marriage: Women Writers and the Moralist Tradition.”