Madelaine Hron

• Overall, my main research area is human rights in the humanities, which includes such issues as torture, migrants and refugees, children’s and women’s rights, global HIV/AIDS, the environment as represented in popular culture, literature and film.
• Since publishing Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture (2009), I continue to be interested in issues related to immigrants and refugees, trauma, violence and healing.
• I also specialize in African literature and film, with particular focus on Nigerian third-generation texts. 
• I'm also an expert in literary and film representations of Rwanda postgenocide.
• Currently, I'm working on a book project on African children's rights in literary, cinematic and cultural contexts.  

• Shortlisted for Raymond Klibansky Award for Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture (2010).
• Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award (2004).

Courses I teach regularly

• EN 330: Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms;
• EN 213: Child in African Literature and Culture
• EN 313: West African Literatures and Cultures;
• EN 237: The Fairy Tale
• EN 460L: Reading and Healing: Suffering, Literature and Medicine
• EN 692w: The Witness and The Critic: The Documentary and Testimonial Genres.

I would be delighted to supervise graduate students with interests in African literature, human rights, immigrants/refugees, trauma studies, narratives of illness, the fairy tale and postcolonial/global literature.

• Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Here's a list of some of my book chapters and articles accessed online via the Laurier library. If you're not an academic, and/or cannot obtain these articles freely, please contact me at mhron@wlu.ca and I will more than happily provide you with a free copy. Thank you for your interest in my work! 

• “Stillbirth Grief, Eco-grief and Corona Grief: Reflections on Denialism,” in Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change, Eds. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey. New York: Springer, 2022. 67-75
• “Imbabazi, Kwicuza & Christian Testimonials of Forgiveness.” Rwanda after 1994: Stories of Change. Eds. Nicki Hitchcott and Hannah Grayson. Liverpool University Press, 2019: 211-31.
• “’Reel’ Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp.” Refugee Imaginaries: Contemporary Research across the Humanities. Emma Cox, Sam Durrell and Agnes Wooley. University of Edinburgh Press. 2019. 330-349.
• “Teaching about Torture, or, Reading between the Lines in the Humanities,” Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Elizabeth Babson and Alexandra Moore. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. pp. 183-209.
• “The Trauma of Displacement.” Trauma and Literature, edited by J. Roger Kurtz, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, pp. 284–298.
• “From ‘Tutsi Crush’ to ‘FWP’: Satire, Sentiment, and Rights in African Texts and Contexts.” Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Sophia McClennan and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2015. 215-223.
• “The Humanitarian Gaze and the Sans-frontièrisme of Suffering.” Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures. Magali Compan. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015. 147-171
• '"Pleasantly Easy': Discourses of the Suffering Child in Rwanda Post-Genocide.” Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies . 2.1/2 (Summer 2014): 27-44
• "Genres of 'Yet An Other Genocide': Cinematic Representations of Rwanda." Film and Genocide. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 282-315.
• “Gukora and Itsembatsemba: The “Ordinary Killers” in Jean Hatzfeld's Machete Season.” Research in African Literatures 42.2 (Summer 2011): 125-46.
• Guest Editor. Special Issue on Post-Genocide Rwanda. Peace Review 21.3 (Fall 2009): 275-427
• “Icyireze in Rwanda Fifteen Years Post-Genocide.” Peace Review 21:3 (Fall 2009): 275-79.
• “Ora na-azu nwa: The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels.” Research in African Literatures (Special Issue on Nigerian Literature) 39.2 (Summer 2008): 27-48.