Professor Haynes Named Distinguished Scholar of the Year

Long Island University Professor of English and Film Studies Dr. Jonathan Haynes is the Lagos Studies Association’s 2019 Distinguished Scholar of the Year. 

Paul Ugor, Associate Professor at Illinois State University, nominated Dr. Haynes, writing: “Prof. Haynes’ research work in African literature and cinema marks him out as a scholar of towering international reputation whose persistence of scholarly inquiry into African modes of self-expression has secured legitimation for a field of study now known globally as Nollywood studies. … What Prof Haynes has achieved in African studies is truly remarkable and unprecedented, for very few people who invented a discipline still live amongst us in flesh and blood.”

You can read the full citation here.

Congratulations, Professor Haynes! This fall, he will teach ENG 580, a graduate level seminar on the contemporary African novel.