Dul Johnson is professor of Literature and Film Studies and currently Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Social, and Management Sciences, Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State. He holds a PhD in African Literature from the University of Jos, Jos.
He had a short but brilliant career in the broadcast media (NTA) from 1981 to 1996, rising from Producer I to Manager Programmes, winning many laurels along the line. Retired and settled for academics from 1996 to date, starting off as Lecturer I in the University of Jos. He also worked briefly with the Nigerian Film Corporation, Jos. He has also taught at the National Film Institute and the Television College, both in Jos. Moved to Bingham University, Karu, as Senior Lecturer, from where he rose to the rank of professor of literature and Film Studies.
In 2010 he won the International Writers Program Fellowship to Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, where he spent a semester working on his first novel, Deeper into the Night. His other creative works include Shadows and Ashes and Why Women Won’t Make it to Heaven (short stories), Melancholia (a play), which made the ANA shortlist in 2015, and the NLNG nomination in 2018. His most recent novel, Across the Gulf, won the ANA Prose Fiction Prize, in 2017. His documentary film, “There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle” was nominated for Best Documentary in AMAA 2012, and the Basil Wright Prize for best director at the RAI International Ethnography Film festival in Scotland in 2013. The film is being distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) of Britain.
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. He is studied as Special Author in a number of Nigerian universities. His other publications include Ugba Uyeh: The Living Legend (a biography) and Women Development, a history of the Development Education Centre (DEC), Bauchi.
Dul has run many training workshops and consultancy for several government and private organizations for film, television and radio productions and scriptwriting.
