Franklin earned a Bachelor of Arts from
Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley. Franklin teaches at the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. she shapes the discussion of life-writing as a political and global genre. Franklin's work,
Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (
University of Georgia Press, 2009), critiques strands of contemporary cultural theory, including feminist,
post-colonial,
disability studies, and critical
race studies as well as scrutinizing memoirs written by fellow critics as
Edward Said and
Jane Tompkins. Franklin's previous book ''Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies'' (
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997) focuses on the work of feminist writers of the 70's and 80's in pioneering the anthology as a unique form of narrating women's lives. ==Publications==