Rate My Professor Jeanne Garane

Jeanne Garane is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies Program Director in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of South Carolina, where she also serves as Director and Graduate Advisor for the French Program. She is a faculty affiliate in Film Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. Garane earned her Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1994, with a major in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Literatures and a minor in Women's Studies; an M.A. in French from the same university in 1987; a Licence-ès-Lettres from the University of Grenoble, France, in 1985; and a B.A. magna cum laude, double majoring in French and English, from Northern Michigan University in 1983. Her academic career includes positions at the University of South Carolina since 1997—advancing from Assistant Professor (1997-2003) to Associate Professor (2003-2012) and Full Professor (2013-present)—and Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Evansville from 1992 to 1997.

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).