Hapsatou Wane (She/Her/Hers)

Selected courses taught at Georgia Southern University

• ENGL 2100: Literature and Humanities: Coming to America (Online asynchronous and F2F)
• ENGL 2100: Literature and Humanities: Humor in Global Contexts (Online asynchronous )
• ENGL 2100; Literature and Humanities: Comics in Global Contexts (Online asynchronous )
• ENGL 3110: Introduction to Literary Studies (F2F)
• ENGL 7030: Graduate Seminar: African Literature (Synchronous online)
• ENGL 5090 UG: Literature of Migration (Online asynchronous)
• ENGL 2111: World Literature I (Online and F2F)
• ENGL 5225: 20th and 21st American Literature: the American Dream (F2F, Team-taught)
• ENGL 4630: Senior Seminar: Other, Othering, and Otherness in Postcolonial Literatures (F2F)
• FREN 3030: Special Topics: French and Francophone Cinema (Online hybrid)
• FREN 3030: Special Topics: French and Francophone Comic Books (Online hybrid)
• FREN 3030: Special Topics: Urban Cultures: From Hashtags to Rap in the French and Francophone World ( Online hybrid)
• FREN 3030: Special Topics: Immigration in French and Francophone Literature (Online hybrid)

Selected of service at Georgia Southern University

Department of Literature:

Inclusive excellence committee (Chair)

• Wrote the department's inclusive excellence statement
• Assessed and implemented changes to the department manual so that it meets the reclusive excellence criteria
• Curated a list of the DEI initiatives promoted and organized by the department of literature
• Organized workshops on Inclusive teaching and learning practices with guest speakers
• Started and facilitated a faculty and graduate students book club reading DEI-related books every summer since 2020
• Supported the initiatives of creating graduate assistantships to write a report on the department's DEI climate
• Collaborated with colleagues in other departments on a panel sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Affairs
• Participated in all inclusive excellence events organized by the Center for Faculty Success
• Actively and regularly participated in reads in organized by Women's , Gender, and Sexuality Studies for International Women Day, Center for Africana Studies' events such as Juneteenth and Gullah Geechee celebrations and the Office of Global Engagement's Caribbean and African festivals

Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Ethnic / Transnational Studies -Department of Literature (Member)

• Assessed candidates knowledge on inclusive excellence's practices
• Ensured that all candidates were treated equitably
• Collaborated with the Office of Inclusive Excellence to curate a list of platforms targeting candidates from underrepresented communities

Marketing, Recruitment and Retention Committee (Member)

• Participated in the development of marketing, recruitment and retention strategies
• Ensured that all events were reaching students from underrepresented communities

Undergraduate Studies committee

• Participated in the creation of a reading on effective strategies in teaching literature
• Created new courses based on the feedback of students and advisors

British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference Committee (Member)

• Participated in the transition from an in-person to virtual conference
• Diversified the list of keynote speakers
• Led the marketing initiatives to promote the conference
• Organized and chaired a panel of graduate students

Department of World Languages and Cultures

Minor in Comparative Literature (Co-chair)

• Revived the minor in Comparative Literature
• Co-led new curriculum designs
• Contributed to learning outcomes
• Initiated collaborative marketing for the minor

College of Arts and Humanities

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (Member)

• Collaborated on the office of inclusive excellence college action plan and the college inclusive excellence statement
• Developed items aligned with department of literature's action plan
• Supported the inclusion of staff members in the committee
• Curated a list of events promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Brainstormed on inter-departmental DEI initiatives
• Served as a liaison with the chair of the department of literature as a member of the executive committee in charge of the monthly meetings' agenda

University Service

Georgia Southern University Institutional Review Board (IRB) committee (Member)

• Reviewed protocols with vulnerable populations collectively and individually
• Completed CITI program courses on Human Subjects-Social & Behavioral Research

Selected Certificates and Badges:

• Certificate of completion of the Center for Teaching Excellence's Web Accessibility Workshop
• Center for Teaching Excellence's Teaching Online Certificate
• Center for Teaching Excellence's Improve your Online Teaching
• GetInclusive Certificate: DEI: Inclusive Hiring
• GetInclusive Certificate: DEI for the workplace
• GetInclusive Certificate: Microaggressions Expanded Learning
• GetInclusive Certificate: DEI Unconscious Bias Expanded Learning
• Safe Zone Trained Badge
• Skillsoft: Leadership Insights on Leading Diversity Badge
• Skillsoft: New Project Manager Essentials Badge
• Skillsoft: Defining a Project Scope and Team Badge
• Center for Teaching Excellence's Evidence-Based Teaching badge
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) (In progress)

Selected publications and presentations:

• Wane, Hapsatou. “Transglocal Fictions: Narratives of Detours in Maryse Condé’s Hérémakhonon en attendant le bonheur.” The Coastal Review.
• Wane, Hapsatou. “Transglocalizing Memory: Globalectical Perspectives on African Immigrant Literature.” Peer-reviewed abstract accepted for Handbook to New Approaches to Cultural Memory Studies, a collection edited by Brett A. Kaplan. Submitted in June 2021.
• Wane, Hapsatou. “Africanjujuism in Edwidge Danticat’s The Children of the Sea (1993) and Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019).” Journal of African Literature. Submitted in July 2022.
• Wane, Hapsatou. Transglocalizing Intersectionality in Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthurian: A Black Spirit Memoir (2021) in the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies. To be submitted in July 2023.
• Kaplan, Brett Ashley. "Interview with Jacqueline Pery D'Alincourt." Transcribed by Hapsatou Wane. Contemporary French Civilization 38.3 (2013): 323-43.
• “Africanjujuism in Edwidge Danticat’s Children of the Sea (1993).” Transatlantic Memories, Blackness, and African Diasporic Identity: Now and in the Future conference organized by the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas hosted at York University. May 11-12, 2022. Virtual.
• “Africanjujuism in Edwidge Danticat’s The Children of the Sea (1993) and Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019).” 2022 African Literature Association. May 18-21, 2022. Virtual.
• “Africanjujuism and Black Migratory Subjectivities.” 2022 American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting. June 15-18, 2022. Virtual.
• “Beyond Organic Fantasy: AfricanJujuism in Ibi Zoboi’s American Street (2017).” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Online Conference. October 7-9, 2022. Virtual.
• “The World vs. The Transglocal: New Globalectical Perspectives on African Immigrant Literature.” 2021 Virtual American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 2021.
• “Blackening Wakanda: Decolonizing Afrofuturism.” 2021 Virtual College Language Association Convention, April 2021. Co-presented with Christopher Cartright.
• “From Ndakaaru to Dakar: Eco-feminist Flâneries in Ken Bugul’s Cacophonie and Aller Retour” 2021 Virtual NEMLA, Women in French Sponsored Panel, March 2021.
• “The World vs. The Transglocal: New Globalectical Perspectives on African Immigrant Literature.” 2020 American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois, March 2020. -Canceled. Accepted in 2021.
• “Blackening Wakanda: Decolonizing Afrofuturism.” 2020 College Language Association Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2020. Canceled. Accepted in 2021.
• “The Neurotics of the Diaspora: Globalectics and the Immigrant Experiment in Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom.” Virtual African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Chair of AfricaNow! Session, November 2020.
• “I Studied my History, I Studied my Past…”: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyonce’s Homecoming. February 2020. Savannah, Georgia. Panelist.
• “I, Too, Am Americanah”: Digital Transglocalities and Other African Immigrant Identities.” 29th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Georgia, February 2020.

Professional memberships

• Women in French (WIF)
• African Literature Association (ALA) African Studies Association (ASA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA