Visiting Faculty Fellowship
CASA encourages faculty from its member and associate member institutions to apply for a Faculty-in-Residence fellowship position, wherein the professor will be present onsite in Cuba for one month during the semester and be engaged in local academic activities of relevance to Cuba’s historical, cultural, artistic, political, economic or social context.
Interested in applying for the 2026-2027 academic year? Contact globalbrown@brown.edu for more information.
Is an Austrian-born professor of media study and a documentary filmmaker at Johns Hopkins University. Her work brings together her feminist thought and interest in erased histories and minority-centric storytelling.
At CASA Cuba during the Spring ’26 semester, Bernadette will offer a workshop and screening series on global eco-cinema, with a special focus on Cuba’s role in Latin American Film history, and its contributions to the current trends in eco-cinema. The 4-week workshop will include discussions with international filmmakers who are brought into the classroom in a hybrid form engaging them in Q&A about their films.
As an academic, she is the author of several books in the field of media studies with MIT Press and co-editor of Radical Equalities: Global Feminist Filmmaking. Her latest monograph on filmmaker Jane Campion for the Philosophical Filmmaker Series came out with Bloomsbury Press (2025).
She is currently editing a special issue on Body Modification and Gender Anarchy in Media Theory and Practice for MAST (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory), together with Cla Calabrese. Bernadette has produced and directed several award-winning documentary features and shorts. She is currently working on The Archives (forthcoming 2026), a documentary about the global Holocaust archives told through the unheard voices of Holocaust archivists. The Conductor (2021) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, played at over 60 festivals, won five Best Documentary awards, and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary.
Professor Adrian H. Hearn
Spanish and Latin American Studies Program
Faculty of Arts
The University of Melbourne.
Fall 2024 Semester.
Title: Ethnicity and Development in Cuba.
This course explores the past and present dynamics of ethnicity and development in Cuba. The presentations and classroom discussions cover pre-Columbian settlement byIndigenous migrants, colonization by Spain and incursions by Britain and France, the forced migration of Yoruba and other West Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the introduction of indentured Chinese workers in the mid-19th century. These waves of migration are considered not only as chapters in Cuba’s history, but as the basis for reflection about the future of multiculturalism and inclusive development on the island. This reflection includes current challenges faced by Afro-Cuban communities, as well as Cuba’s engagement with China, whose diaspora community provides a unique bridge for trade, investment, and cultural exchange. The course draws on twenty years of publications, seminars, and teaching on these topics, and over three years of research in Cuba.
