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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,Μύ±υ³Ύ²ϊΎ±³ϊ΄Η, Postcolonial Text,ΜύAriel,ΜύJournal of Comparative Literature and CultureΜύ²Ή²Τ»εΜύTydskrif vir Letterkunde, in book series likeΒ African Literature Today,Β and books likeΒ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, Concordia University, Delta State University, and the University of Uyo.

Degree(s): 

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

Selected publications: 

Articles and Book Chapters

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

β€œ.” Imbizo, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, p. 18 pages.

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

β€œβ€ Postcolonial Text, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022.

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

β€œ.” African Literature Today, vol. 35, edited by Ernest Emenyonu. Boydell & Brewer, 2017, pp. 161-190.

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

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

β€œ.” Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South.

β€œβ€ (review). Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 58, no. 1, 2021, pp. 171-172.

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