Madelaine is an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, where her selected research interests include; Human Rights; Postcolonial & Globalization Theory; Postcolonial Literature; Immigration, Francophone Lit.; Translation; Cultural, and Media & Gender Studies. She has been a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, earned her PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, and her BA from the University of Alberta. Her first book; Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature & Culture, has just been published by University of Toronto Press, and spring 2009 finds her in Rwanda researching her forthcoming book, "Human Rights, Cultural Representations & Post-Genocide Rwanda." Madelaine's current work examines human rights issues in popular culture, especially in literary and cinematic representations of post-genocide Rwanda. As part of her current project, she has created the Human Rights in the Humanities Website which includes a searchable database of materials on diverse human rights topics.
Her selected publications include: