Dr Dunja Fehimovic

• Principal Investigator School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
• Email: dunja.fehimovic@newcastle.ac.uk
• Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Dunja joined Newcastle University in 2016, after completing an MLitt in Latin American Studies and a PhD on national identity in contemporary Cuban film at the University of Cambridge. She has a background in English literature and Spanish (language and literatures), and have dabbled in documentary filmmaking. Her research addresses questions of national and regional (Caribbean) identities, neoliberalism and branding, ethics and otherness, temporality and ecology via film. 

She is the co-founder (with Professor Emerita Mary Leonard, UPR-Mayaguez) of Caribbean Film Forum, a platform that aims to strengthen networks of filmmakers, curators, and scholars and raise the visibility of Caribbean cinema via online and in-person screenings, conversations, and debates, and of the Caribbean Film Educators’ Network, which aims to support and strengthen pedagogical collaborations and student opportunity in the region.