Prof. Dr. Victor S. Dugga

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies,African Studies
KeywordsDevelopment Communication, Media Arts, Theatre, Social Application, Nigeria
Honours and awards

2017: Fellow, Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA)

2009: Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) / NDDC J.P. Clark Award for Drama for the Play Hope Harvesters.

2001: Swiss Society for African Studies & FIFA Literary Competition for original short story, ‘Over the Bar’. Zurich, Switzerland.

2000: VIII. Deutscher Akamischer Austauschdients (DAAD) Scholarship

1994: Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, U.K.

1991: Nigerian National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) State Commendation Award, Anambra / Enugu States

1990: Jack Tilley Gyado (Scholastic) Prize for the Best Graduating Actor, University of Jos

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityLafia
InstitutionFederal University Lafia
InstituteFaculty of Arts

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Susan ArndtProfessur Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone Literaturen, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Victor S. DuggaFaculty of Arts, Federal University Lafia, Lafia
Prof. Dr. Cecile SandtenInstitut Anglistik / Amerikanistik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2013

Program(s)

2012Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2017Victor S. Dugga: Tracking the Absence of Theorizing Applied Theater in Africa. In: Victor N. Gomia and Gil S. Ndi Re-Writing Pasts and Reimagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater.. Spears Media Press, 2017.
2017Victor S. Dugga: Where Have all the Flowers Gone’? Literary Theory and the ‘Radical’ Movement in African Theatre’. In: Theory of Literature and Theory of the Arts and Humanities: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Sonderbach Leipzig: Biblion Media GmbH, 2017, 287-304
2016Victor S. Dugga: Horses and Aesthetic Objects in Durbar. In: Adeniyi Olagunju, Durbar in Northern Nigeria. Art Heritage Limited, 2016.
2014Victor S. Dugga, Folarin Shyllon, Emmanuel Dandaura, Christopher Odhiambo, Mufunanji Magalasi, Nath Mayo Adediran: Establishment of the On-going Cooperation Activities Between The European Union and Africa with Regards to Cultural Goods, 2013.. African Union, 2014
2013Victor S. Dugga: From the ‘Ivory Towers’ to the Lungus: The Paradigm of Ahmadu Bello University Drama Programme.. In: Samuel T. Kafewo Tor J. Iorapuu and Emmanuel S. Dandaura, Theatre Unbound: Reflections on Theatre for Development and Social Change. SONTA/ABU Press, 2013. 62-72
2010Segun Adedeji, Pakinaz Baraka, Victor S. Dugga and Stephen Odebero: Private Financing as Means to Improve Access to Higher Education in Africa. In: Sabine O’Hara, Higher Education in Africa: Equity, Access, Opportunity. . Institute of International Education, 2010.
2009Victor S. Dugga: Theatre in Health Education. In: M. Prendergast and J. Saxton, Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice. Intellect Books, 2009.
2008Victor S. Dugga: A Window on Africa: Changing Cultures and Peoples. DAT & Partners, 2008
2006Victor S. Dugga: Rethinking Training Imperatives in Nigerian University Theatre. In: Nigerian Theatre Journal , 2006,
2006Victor S. Dugga: The Yoruba Roots of A Dance of the Forests and Death and the King’s Horseman. In: Anjali Gera Roy, Wole Soyinka: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Pencraft International, 2006. 71-84
2004Victor S. Dugga: Insiders and Outsiders: Perspectives of Influences on the Study of African Literature. In: New Directions in African Writing: The Literary Criterion Vol. XXXIX, 2004, 5-14
2002Victor S. Dugga: Creolisations in Nigerian Theatre. Bayreuth African Studies Series, 2002
2002Victor S. Dugga: Development Agenda Versus People’s Agenda: Theatre Diplomacy in Rural Central Nigeria. In: Bjorn Rasmussen and Anna-Lena Østern, Playing Between and Betwixt: The IDEA Dialogues 2001. IDEA Publications, 2002. 107-113
2002Victor S. Dugga: Icons and Metaphors in African Theatre against HIV/AIDS’ . In: NJ Drama Australia Journal, 2002, 63-72