Dominica Dipio

Dominica Dipio is a professor of literature and film in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda. She has over 60 publications in the areas of literature, film, folklore popular culture, audience, and gender studies. Notable among the publications are: Gender Terrains in African Cinema; and a trilogy of edited books: Performing Community; Performing Change; and Performing Wisdom. The dialogue between the city and the village the old and the new, the past and the present, and voices from the margins are palpable in her researches. Dipio is also a filmmaker with a wide juror experience at international, regional and national film festivals like the Berlinale, Milan, FESPACO, ZIFF and Uganda Film Festival. Her current creative enterprise is adapting African folktales into animation films. She has received several distinguished fellowships and academic awards such the East African Commonwealth, Fulbright, African Humanities Program, Cambridge-Africa Programme for Research Excellence (CAPREx), and the Research Innovation Fund (RIF).