The Tribune

THE University of The Bahamas (UB) has announced the appointment of Dr Ian Strachan as vice president of UB-North, formerly the Northern Bahamas Campus.

Dr Strachan is a professor of English at UB. He holds an associate of arts degree in English and literature from the College of The Bahamas (1988); a teacher's certificate from the University of the West Indies (1988); a bachelor of arts degree in English from Morehouse College (1990); and a master of arts (1993) and doctor of philosophy (1995) in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former research fellow at the Carter G Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia (1998-1999) and a former assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (1999-2001). Dr Strachan served as chair of the School of English Studies at COB (2004-2007) and as the college's vice president of advancement (2013-2015).

A poet, playwright, novelist and filmmaker, Dr Strachan is an editor of Poitier Revisited with Mia Mask and Violence in The Bahamas with William Fielding and Virginia Ballance. He has written and directed a number of plays, including No Seeds in Babylon (1991) which appears in the anthology Contemporary Drama for the Caribbean (2001) and Diary of Souls (1999). In 1996, he founded the Track Road Theatre Foundation and served as its director until 2006. In 2007, his poetry was included in the anthology New Caribbean Poetry (Carcanet 2007). He is the writer, producer and director of the television series, Gippie's Kingdom and he wrote and directed his first film, Show Me Your Motion: The Ringplay Games of The Bahamas in 2006.