Mathias Iroro Orhero, PhD
- PT Professor, Centre for Engineering in Society
- PT Professor, Fine Arts
- PT Professor, English
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Biography
About
Mathias Iroro Orhero has been a part time professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, since January 2022.
Education
Ph.D., McGill University, 2024
M.A., University of Uyo, 2018
B.A., Delta State University, 2014
Teaching activities
ENCS 272
Composition and Argumentation for Engineers
ENCS 282
Technical Communication for Engineers
FFAR 298
Black Representation in Art
ENGL 383
African Literature
FFAR 298
The Culture of True Crime
ENGL 260
Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 235
Short Fiction
ENGL 212
English Composition
Publications
Selected Publications
"The Development of Monica Popescu’s Research." Safundi (2024): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2024.2405081
"Negotiating Home in New African Diasporic Writings: The Niger Delta and Black Canadian Geographies in the Poetry of Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero Ede." The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature, edited by Tanure Ojaide and Lokangaka Losambe. Routledge. 2024, 291-303.
""Stubborn Beauty": Africadian Women and Black Consciousness in George Elliott Clarke's Where Beauty Survived." Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region/Revue d'histoire de la region atlantique 52.2 (2023): 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2023.a925081
“Violence-as-Norm in the Postcolony: Reading Statist Violence and Civic Dissent in Nigerian Literature” (co-authored with Chikezirim Nwoke). Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, vol. 54, no. 2, 2023, pp. 341-361. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05402009
“Niger Delta Subaltern Agency and Resistance in Obari Gomba’s The Ascent Stone and Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky.” Imbizo, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, p. 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/12532
“Epistemic Recuperation and Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Verbal Battle Tradition in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Kofi Anyidoho.” African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance, edited by Tanure Ojaide. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5_14
“Child Narrators, Conceptions of Reality, and Minority Identity in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” Postcolonial Text, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2784
“Little Magazines and the Development of Modern African Poetry.” African Literature Today, vol. 35, edited by Ernest Emenyonu. Boydell & Brewer, 2017, pp. 161-190. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442351.013
"Urhobo Folklore and Udje Aesthetics in Tanure Ojaide's In the House of Words and Songs of Myself." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 2, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3014
“Artistic Commitment and Minority Resistance: Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint and Niger Delta Poetry.” Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://www.globalsouthstudies.org/conversation-essay/artistic-commitment-and-minority-resistance-monica-popescus-at-penpoint-and-niger-delta-poetry/