Rate My Professor Jeanne Garane

Garane's research specializations encompass postcolonial literature, theory, and film; translation studies; comparative literary and cultural studies; and gender studies. She has authored numerous scholarly articles, including "How Postcolonial Translation Theory Transforms Francophone African Studies" in The Comparatist (2014), "How to Get to Barcelona or Die Trying" in Black Camera (2014), and "Littérature-monde and the Space of Translation" in Transnational French Studies (2010). Key publications feature her literary translations: Amkoullel, The Fula Boy, memoirs by Amadou Hampâté Bâ (Duke University Press, 2021); The Leopard Boy by Daniel Picouly (University of Virginia Press, 2016); and The Land Without Shadows by Abdourahman Waberi (University of Virginia Press, 2005). She edited Discursive Geographies: Writing Space and Place in French (Rodopi, 2005), French Literature Series Volume XLI: Odysseys (Brill/Rodopi, 2017), and Volume XLII: Hybrid Genres (Brill/Rodopi, 2018). Garane has received the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2025-2026) for At Your Service, Commandant!, Camargo Foundation Fellowship (2019), multiple NEH Summer Institute Fellowships (2013, 1999, 1995), Josephine Abney Fellowship (2008), and various University of South Carolina research grants including Provost's Grants and EXCEL Grant (2024-2025).