Alexandra Juhasz
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Alexandra Jeanne "Alex" Juhasz (born March 12, 1964) is a feminist writer and theorist of media production.
Education
Juhasz received her B.A. in American Studies and English at
Career
Juhasz began her career at New York University in 1990 as adjunct instructor in cinema studies. From 1991 to 1994 she worked as an assistant professor (English and women's studies) at Swarthmore College.
She then took a position at Pitzer College, where she was an assistant professor from 1995 to 1997 and an associate professor from 1997 to 2003. She was a full professor in media history, theory, and production at Pitzer College from 2003 to 2016, as well as a professor in the Cultural Studies, Art, and English Departments at Claremont Graduate University. In Fall 2016, she became Chairperson of the Department of Film at Brooklyn College.[2] In December 2019, Juhasz was named a distinguished professor by CUNY's board of trustees.[3]
Juhasz's research interests include documentary video production,
Juhasz has produced two feature films: The Owls[7][8] and The Watermelon Woman. She has also produced over a dozen educational documentaries that focus on feminist concerns ranging from teen pregnancy to AIDS, such as Video Remains.[9]
Publications
- “#cut/paste+bleed: Entangling Feminist Affect, Action and Production On and Offline,” in Jentery Sayers, ed. Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities (Routledge: 2018): 18-32.
- Blackwell Companion to Film Studies: Documentary and Documentary Histories. Co-edited with Alisa Lebow (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Press, forthcoming 2014/16).[10]
- Learning from YouTube. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011.[4][10]
- F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing, Edited with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).[6]
- Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media Transcripts from 20 interviews in feminist film and video history. (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).[6]
- AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.[10]
- "The Contained Threat: Women in Mainstream AIDS Documentary." Journal of Sex Research, 27:1, 1990. Special issue: Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality.
References
- ^ Alexandra Juhasz: Resume
- ^ "Film".
- ^ "Alexandra Juhasz Named Distinguished Professor". CUNY Newswire. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b Juhasz, Alexandra. "Learning from YouTube" The MIT Press Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ McPherson, Tara. "Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities." Cinema Journal, 48:2, Winter 2009.
- ^ a b c "Alexandra Juhasz". The Huffington Post, Oct. 16, 2013
- ^ Juhasz, Alexandra. "A Lesbian Collective Aesthetic: Making and Teaching The Owls" Signs, no. 2.1, 2010.
- ^ "The Owls (2010)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ Hilderbrand, Lucas. "Retroactivism." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 12.2 (2006): 303-317.
- ^ a b c "Detailed curriculum vitae including works and publications. Media Studies, Pitzer College online" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
External links
- Alexandra Juhasz at IMDb