Dr. Paul Ugor Book Launch: Thursday March 19th, 11-12:30

[Arts Communications]

Please join us to launch three(!) books by our colleague from the Department of English, Dr. Paul Ugor.

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: University of Waterloo, DWE 3516
Registration: Required
Registration Link:<https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/36204bc1-6fb7-41ae-88a8-8c9fecb3d5b9@723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396.> <https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/36204bc1-6fb7-41ae-88a8-8c9fecb3d5b9@723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396.>

Refreshments will be served.

Book Titles:
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics and Aesthetic Reinventions(co-edited with Arnab Dutta Roy)
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place (co-edited with Arnab Dutta Roy and Simone Maria Puleo)
Narrating Transitional Justice: Memory in the Age of Truth and Reconciliation (co-edited with Bonny Ibhawoh)

Keynote Reviewers:
Dr. Rebecca Saunders, Department of English, Illinois State University
Dr. Pauline Wakeham, Dept. of English and Creative Writing, University of Western Ontario

Bios:
Dr. Paul Ugor
Dr. Paul Ugor is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. He holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, an MA from the University of Ibadan, and a BA from the University of Calabar. His research focuses on modern African literature and film, Nollywood cinema, African youth cultures, and Black popular culture. He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, and Narrating Transitional Justice: Memory in the Age of Truth and Reconciliation.

Dr. Rebecca Saunders - Reviewer
Dr. Rebecca Saunders is a professor of comparative and African Literatures in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches global literatures, cultural theory, and African studies. Her research engages European and African literatures through continental philosophy and transdisciplinary fields, including human rights, trauma and memory studies, and animal studies.

Dr. Pauline Wakeham- Reviewer
Dr. Pauline Wakeham is an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of Western University’s Department of English and Writing Studies. She teaches and researches in the fields of Indigenous and Canadian literary and cultural studies. She has published on a variety of topics, including critiques of ethnographic photography and film as well as settler state cultures of reconciliation. Dr. Wakeham also teaches as a cross-listed faculty member in the Indigenous Studies Program and is a member of Western's Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.



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