She is the author of Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture, as well as of various articles related to human rights issues, African literature, migration, trauma and violence, in such varied journals as Research in African Literature, Peace Review, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Forum in Modern Language Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, French Literature Studies and Slavonic and East European Review. Madelaine is currently working on two book projects — one related to cultural representations of the African child, and another on the literary and cinematic representations of Rwanda post-genocide