Literature and film scholar
Country of origin
Uganda
Sr Dominica Dipio has obtained a BA in Education and an MA in Literature, both at the Makerere University in Uganda. In 2002 she obtained a PhD on women in African cinema at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), where she also lectured on «Introduction to Film Criticism and African Cinema». Dr. Dipio is today Professor of Literature and Head of the Department of Literature at the School of Languages, Literature and Communication in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Makerere University in Uganda. Among her publications is a book on Gender Terrains in African Cinema (2014). She was several times member of SIGNIS juries.