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Mathias ORHERO

Contact Information
Email address: 
mathias.orhero [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
Africa
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Poetry & Poetics
Aesthetics
Critical Theory
Identity & Representation
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Areas of interest: 

minority discourse; Black Canadian literature; Nigerian literature; world literature studies; postcolonial studies; poetry and poetics; comparative studies

Biography: 

Mathias Iroro Orhero is a near-completion doctoral candidate whose primary research interests include Niger Delta and Black Maritime poetry, minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and world literature studies. His dissertation explores the colonial hegemony of nation-states and the production of minority subjectivity in Nigeria and Canada. Specifically, he reads the aesthetics of minority discourse and how it reacts to state violence in the works of Tanure Ojaide, Ogaga Ifowodo, Sophia Obi, George Elliott Clarke, David Woods, and Sylvia Hamilton. His work has appeared or will soon appear (accepted) in journals like Matatu, Acadiensis,听滨尘产颈锄辞, Postcolonial Text,听Ariel,听Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture听补苍诲听Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, in book series like聽African Literature Today,聽and books like聽Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta, African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance, and The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming special section of the Nordic Journal of African Studies. His teaching experience includes numerous courses taught at 69热视频, Concordia University, Delta State University, and the University of Uyo.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., 69热视频 (exp. 2024)
M.A. English, University of Uyo, 2018
B.A. (Hons.) English, Delta State University, 2014

Selected publications: 

Articles and Book Chapters

鈥溾 (co-authored with Chikezirim Nwoke). Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, vol. 54, no. 2, 2023, pp. 341-361.

鈥.鈥 Imbizo, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, p. 18 pages.

鈥.鈥 African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance, edited by Tanure Ojaide. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 263-280.

鈥溾 Postcolonial Text, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022.

鈥溾 (co-authored with Friday Akpan Okon). Cogent Arts and Humanities, vol. 8, no. 1, 2021, 1992084.

鈥.鈥 African Literature Today, vol. 35, edited by Ernest Emenyonu. Boydell & Brewer, 2017, pp. 161-190.

"." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 2, 2017.

鈥溾 (review). Ariel: An International Review of English Literature, vol. 54, no. 1, 2023, pp. 159-163.

鈥.鈥 Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South.

鈥溾 (review). Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 58, no. 1, 2021, pp. 171-172.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Fonds de Recherche du Quebec 鈥 Societe et Culture, Doctoral Research Scholarship, April 2023
  • Glorianna Martineau Fellowship, 69热视频, January 2023
  • Charles R. Bronfman and Alex K. Paterson Top-Up Awards, 69热视频, September 2022 & 2023
  • Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 69热视频, September 2020
  • Overall Best Graduating Student Certificate (Departmental), Delta State University, May 2014
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