Bernadette Wegenstein (born 1969)[1] is a Research Professor and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

[2] She received a doctorate from University of Vienna in 1998 with a thesis "Die Darstellung von Aids in den Medien : semio-linguistische Analyse und Interpretation" ("The portrayal of AIDS in the media: linguistic semiotic analysis and interpretation") Copies of the thesis are held in WorldCat libraries.

Bernadette produced and directed her first documentary Made Over in America (Icarusfilms) about the television makeover show The Swan (TV series) in 2007.

Her second film, See You Soon Again, which she co-directed with the Austrian director and producer Lukas Stepanik (The Cinema Guild, 2012) is a portrait of Viennese Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz in his efforts to pass on his story of survival to the Baltimore youth.

The film brings together her expertise on the history of the body and makeover culture with her passion for the character-driven cinéma vérité genre; and the documentary short, Devoti Tutti, is a neo-realist exploration of the little known breast cancer patron Saint Agatha of Sicily who was martyrized by her breast sacrifice in 251 AD.