Mathias ORHERO

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, Imbizo, Postcolonial Text, Ariel, Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture and Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, in book series like African Literature Today, and books like 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 McGill University, Concordia University, Delta State University, and the University of Uyo.