Isdanny Morales Sosa is a PhD student in the Latin American Studies program. She holds a BA in Art History (Summa Cum Laude) from the Universidad de La Habana (2016). Currently, she is in the final stages of writing her doctoral thesis in Philosophy, with a specialization in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Universidad de Chile, which has received funding from the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile (ANID). In this research, Ms. Morales draws from the works of filmmakers such as Enrique Álvarez, Carlos M. Quintela, and Alejandro Alonso to analyze the presence of dead time in post-Soviet Cuban cinema, arguing dead time is no longer confined to the exceptional period in the year when sugarcane production is halted, but rather it is a temporal experience that permeates all aspects of post-Soviet Cuban life. She has taught aesthetics, art theory, and Cuban cinema at the Universidad de La Habana and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Additionally, she was one of the organizers of the Colloquium “Addressing the Past: Revolution and Memory in 21st Century Cuban Media and Cinema,” which was sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Yale University, Rialta Ediciones and the University of Chile. In 2022, she was awarded a grant from the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritages to undertake the research project titled “Displaced Memories and New Affections: The Poetics of South-South Migrant Artists in Chile.” From November 2022 to February 2023, she was a Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at Princeton University. Her research revolves around Latin American and Caribbean cinema, with a specific focus on topics such as memory, archives, history, trans-identities, and women’s cinema. At the Stone Center, she intends to conduct research on migration in contemporary Latin American cinema, employing comparative analysis across different countries in the region.
