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I received my PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor in 2004 and my BA in Honors French from the University of Alberta in 1998. Prior to joining Laurier, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University.
My main research area is human rights in the humanities – issues such as torture, child soldiers, migrants and refugees, children’s and women’s rights, global HIV/AIDS, the environment etc. – in literature and film. Currently I am finishing up a monograph (or a series of articles) on representations of Rwanda postgenocide, and am starting a new project about children in African literary and cultural contexts. In 2009, I published Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture, and I continue to be interested in issues related to immigrants and refugees, trauma and violence, therapy and healing.
- Shortlisted for Raymond Klibansky Award for Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture (2010).
- Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award (2004).
Courses that I’ve created at Laurier and am proud to teach include EN 330: Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms; EN 213: "African Child": Fictions and Representations; EN 209P The Immigrant Narrative; EN 313: West African Literatures and Cultures; EN 460L: Reading and Healing: Suffering, Literature and Medicine and EN 692w: The Witness and The Critic: The Documentary and Testimonial Genres.
I am willing to supervise graduate students with interests in postcolonial literatures, African literatures, global literatures, human rights, immigrants/refugees, trauma studies, life-writing and pathography.
- Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- '"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
- “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.
Contact Info:
E: mhron@wlu.ca
Office location: DAWB 3-116
Office hours: On sabbatical.
Languages spoken: English, French, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin (non-spoken) and smatterings of Haitian Kreyol, Persian and Kinyarwanda