Beatrice Dupuy, Professor of French and Public and Applied Humanities, has received the University of Arizona’s Faculty Service Award.
Sponsored by the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and funded through the Provost’s Investment Fund, the award recognizes faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the University’s service mission, within their department or college, across campus, or in their scholarly community. The University Faculty Service Award was created in 2022 and Dupuy is one of two 2026 recipients, each awarded $7,500 for research and/or professional development purposes to facilitate further work within their discipline.
“Dr. Dupuy is a leader who has made exceptional contributions to the departments of French and Italian and Public and Applied Humanities, the Title VI Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, the College of Humanities, the Graduate Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, and the University of Arizona’s missions and visions through excellence in the realm of service,” wrote Alain-Philippe Durand, Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities, in a nomination letter. “Prof. Dupuy has managed to go beyond the expected in every single structure, internal and external, of the profession: departments, college, university, community, national and international venues.”
Since she joined the U of A in 2002, Dupuy has served for 12 years as Director of the French Basic Language Program, served for 16 years as Director or Co-Director of the Title VI Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy, and Co-Chair for the Cluster Hire Committee for Second Language Learning and Technology. She served for five years as Chair of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program and has chaired 24 SLAT dissertations and served as a member on another 35 dissertation committees.
“Few faculty members have contributed so consistently and at so many levels to the life of the university and the broader profession as Dr. Beatrice Dupuy has done. Her service reflects not only an extraordinary range of activities but also a rare combination of generosity, collegiality, and vision,” wrote Chantelle Warner, COH Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, who served along with Dupuy as Co-Director of CERCLL for 10 years. “Those of us who have had the privilege of working alongside her know that she approaches every committee, initiative, and conversation with an ethic of care and collaboration that elevates the work of all around her. I have also had the opportunity to be mentored by Dr. Dupuy, whose example has deeply influenced my own understanding of what it means to serve—thoughtfully, collaboratively, and with an eye toward the greater good of our academic community.”
Carine Bourget, Professor and Head of the Department of French and Italian, wrote that Dupuy has gone well beyond the expected level of service her whole career, serving on close to double the number of committees, compared to other COH faculty.
“It should be emphasized that Professor Dupuy has made extraordinary contributions at all the levels mentioned: departmental, college, university, community outside of the university, and service for a relevant scholarly community,” Bourget wrote.
The two SLAT chairs who followed Dupuy, current chair Ana M. Carvalho and 2020-2025 chair Suzanne Panferov Reese, wrote a joint letter describing Dupuy as “a prolific scholar in the fields of foreign and second language with an emphasis in French pedagogy, language program administration, and applied linguistics with many academic papers and textbooks credited to her name.” Dupuy’s service to her field extends from that, as a professional academic journal reviewer, external reviewer for academic program reviews and tenure & promotion committees, and as a mentor to students.
“Her tireless dedication to students, transformative leadership, and steady service to the University of Arizona and the profession make her not only deserving of this award, but emblematic of the very spirit it was created to honor,” wrote Carvalho and Panferov Reese.
Dupuy’s nomination even drew a letter from a former student, who she supervised in the 1990s at Louisiana State University. Now an Associate Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Heather Willis Allen wrote about the impact Dupuy has had far beyond the U of A campus.
“As a language educator in Wisconsin, I cannot understate the powerful influence that CERCLL has had across the U.S. through its webinars, conferences, open-access instructional materials, and opportunities for gathering together,” she wrote. “Beatrice’s service as CERCLL Director has shaped the incredible range of projects on second language teaching and learning that have been completed over four grant cycles, but the outcomes of those projects truly are not just local, regional, and national but also global as the innovative pedagogies and instructional materials disseminated through the Center find their way into language classrooms around the world.”