PROF. DUL JOHNSON EMERGES NEW DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR BINGHAM UNIVERSITY
Professor Dul Johnson has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor by Council at its 56th Regular meeting held on Friday, 23rd July 2021 following his nomination by Senate of the University.
Prof. Johnson, succeeds Prof. Alexander B. Adelaiye, who has successfully served out his second and final tenure of two years as Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Until his election, the new Deputy Vice-Chancellor was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and also an Internal Member of Council. Prof. Dul Johnson is an accomplished Professor of English literature and film studies. He has taught at the University of Jos, and the Nigerian Film Corporation, Jos.
In 2010, he won the International writers program fellowship to Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, where he spent a semester working on his novel, “Deeper into the Night”. His other creative works include “Shadows and Ashes” and “Why Women won’t make it to Heaven” amongst others.
His documentary film, “There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle”, was nominated for best documentary in AMAA 2012, and the Basic Wright Prize for Director at the RAI International Ethnography film festival in Scotland in 2013.
His critical works are widely published both locally and Internationally. His novels and short stories are also studied in many universities in Nigeria and the United States of America.
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