Julie Candler Hayes

Professor of French, Emerita. A former chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, she served as Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine arts from 2010 to 2020. Her research areas include literature and philosophy in early modern France, the history and theory of translation, and contemporary literary theory. She is a past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Publications

Books

Women Moralists in Early Modern France. Oxford UP, 2024.

Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800. Stanford UP, 2009.

Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion. Cambridge UP, 1999.

Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre. John Benjamins, 1991.

Translations

Editor and translator. Marie-Louise de Fourqueux, Confessions of Madame *** : Moral Principles for Guidance in Society. Introduction by J. Hayes and Laurence Croq. Under contract with The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Forthcoming.

Translator. Anne Dacier, “From the Preface to The Iliad of Homer.” In The Translation Studies Reader, 5th edition, edited by Lawrence Venuti. London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 47-52.

Editor and translator. Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville, Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Toronto: Iter Press, 2018.

With Ladelle McWhorter. “The Turning of Ereignis: Situating ‘Deconstruction’ in the Topology of Being,” by Gérard Guest. Heidegger Studies 15 (1999): 19-35.

Recent articles:

“La Conscience critique des femmes philosophes.” In Que signifie être philosophe au XVIIIe siècle?, edited by Anne-Lise Rey and Colas Duflo. Presses universitaires de la Sorbonne. Forthcoming.

“Anne Dacier’s Homer: Epic Force.” In A Companion to the Translation of Greek and Latin Epic, edited by Richard H. Armstrong and Alexandra Lianeri, 164-78. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2025.

“Early Modern Actors of Translation: The Case of Anne Dacier.” Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice (2024): 1-10.

“Les Réflexions hazardées d’une femme ignorante de Marie de Verzure: Épistémologie de la morale.” In Femmes et philosophie des Lumières: De l’imaginaire à la vie des idées, edited by Laurence Vanoflen, 55-68. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020.