Please join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Beatrice Dupuy on winning the University of Arizona Faculty Service Award! This award recognizes University of Arizona faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the University's service mission, within their department or college, across campus, or in their scholarly community.
Dr. Dupuy is a Professor in the Department of French & Italian, the Department of Public & Applied Humanities, and the SLAT GIDP. She is the Director of the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL), a Title VI Center that was funded by the Department of Education. Since 2006, CERCLL has served as a unique resource locally, regionally, and nationally to provide high quality, evidence-based, cost-effective language instructional materials. Dr. Dupuy also served as Chair of SLAT from 2015 - 2020 and as Director of the French Language Program from 2002 - 2015. She has also served on the SLAT Executive Council for 12 years (until 2020), was a previous SLAT Instructional Dimensions Area Chair, and the Faculty Editor of the Arizona Working Papers in SLAT (2003 - 2004). Dr. Dupuy additionally served as the Chair of the GIDP Advisor Council between 2018 and 2020, and served on the Graduate Council for 3 years.
Dr. Dupuy is 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 to her name. She is well-known internationally and nationally as an expert in the field, and has been invited to speak at countless conferences, symposia, and workshops at institutions internationally and throughout the U.S.
Her mentoring of students in the field is highly commendable. In addition to teaching regularly, she carries an extraordinary dissertation advising load. She has chaired 24 dissertation committees, and has served as a dissertation committee member on another 41 dissertation committees. She has also served as a Masters Exam Committee Chair for 9 students, and as a Masters Thesis Committee Member for an additional 13 students.
Dr. Dupuy's tireless dedication to the University of Arizona, to her home departments, to her colleagues, to her students, and to the field is well documented. We wish her the most heartfelt congratulations on her well-deserved award!