Madelaine Hron

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Associate Professor Faculty of Arts English and Film Studies Waterloo, Ontario mhron@wlu.ca

Languages

Czech
English
French
Latin (non-spoken)
Portuguese
Smatterings of Haitian Kreyol
Smatterings of Kinyarwanda
Smatterings of Persian
Spanish

Bio/Research

- BA Honors French, University of Alberta, 1998
- PhD Comparative Literature, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University,
2005.
- Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2005-2009; Associate Pr...


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Bio/Research

- BA Honors French, University of Alberta, 1998
- PhD Comparative Literature, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University,
2005.
- Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2005-2009; Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009-present

Research Interests / Ongoing Projects:

- 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.


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Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855

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Media Relations

Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855

Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857

Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812

Brantford Campus:

Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199

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