Terrortories: Geographies of Genocide in Rwanda

Shaun Irlam is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo. He grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and came to the United States in 1985 to pursue his PhD in Comparative Literature at the Humanities Center of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is currently conducting research on representations of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This project focuses on genocide and representation through works of nonfiction, literature, and film in the context of Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo.