Visiting Scholars

Aner Preminger

Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College, Israel

2025-2026 – Visiting Professor in UC Berkeley, USA.
An independent director/producer/writer and a film scholar. Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College, Israel. Winner of the 2017, 34th Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem Prize, for a Jerusalem filmmaker. Preminger teaches Cinema Studies, Acting, and directing
workshops.


Filmography includes:
50 Broken Pieces (Producer & co-editor, 2022); Present Continuous (2012); One Eye Wide Open (2009); Moscobia (2001...

Jordan J. Tudisco

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Jordan J. Tudisco (they/iel) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley under the mentorship of Dr. Damon Young. Jordan holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, a Doctoral Emphasis in Feminist Studies and a Certificate in College and University Teaching (2024) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as two Masters in English Literary and Digital Translation and in Digital Literature and Writing (2015) from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis.

Their dissertation and first book project,...