Alexandra Jeanne Juhasz

Media Studies, Pitzer College

1050 North Mills Ave.

Claremont, CA  91711

W: (909) 607-4431         alexandra_juhasz@pitzer.edu

 

 

 

Education

Harvard University: Management Development Program, Harvard Graduate School of

                                                                       Education, Summer 2004.

 

New York University: Doctorate “With Distinction” in Cinema Studies, February, 1992. 

            Jay Leyda Memorial Award for Outstanding Master’s Student, 1988.

 

            Doctoral dissertation with Bob Stam, Faye Ginsburg, Paul Arthur:

            Re-Mediating AIDS: The Politics of Community Produced Video.

            Awarded 1993 Society for Cinema Studies’ First Prize, “Dissertation Award.”

 

Whitney Independent Studio Program: Year long artist’s program sponsored by the Whitney Museum, 1987-88.

 

Amherst College: B.A., Summa Cum Laude, American Studies and English, 1986.

            Phi Beta Kappa.

 

 

Teaching and Administrative Experience

Claremont Graduate University: Chair, Cultural Studies Department, 2005-7.

Professor: Cultural Studies, Art, English Departments: 1997-present.

 

Pitzer College: Media history, theory, production, women’s and cultural studies.

Professor, 2003-present. Associate Professor: 1997-03. Assistant Professor: 1995-97.

            Associate Dean of the Faculty: 2004-05.

 

Bryn Mawr College: Mellon Fellow in Race, Sexuality and Representation, 1994-95.

 

Swarthmore College: Assistant Professor, English and Women’s Studies, 1991-94.

 

New York University: Adjunct Instructor, Cinema Studies, 1990.

 

 

Books

AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995).

 

Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

 

F is for Phony: Fake Documentary Practice and Theory, ed. with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming, 2006).

 

Media Praxis: A Radical Anthology Integrating Theory, Production and Practice  (under

 consideration, Minnesota University Press)


                                                                                               

Articles Published In Books

 “From the Scenes of Queens: Genre, AIDS and Queer Love,” in The Cinema of Todd Haynes,

ed. James Morrison (London: Wallflower Press, forthcoming).

 

“Video in the Sight of Tran T. Trang,” The Blindness Series, ed. Tran T. Trang

 (under contract review).

 

 “So Many Alternatives: The Alternative AIDS Video Movement,” From ACT UP to the WTO, eds. Ben Shepard and Ronald Hayduk (London: Verso, 2002): 298-305.

 

“The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity in 90s ‘Feminist Cinema,’” The End of Cinema as We Know It, ed. Jon Lewis (NY: NYU Press, 2001): 210-224.

 

 “The Politics of Realist Feminist Documentaries,” Collecting Visible Evidence, eds. Michael Renov and Jane Gaines (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999): 190-215.

 

“Bad Girls Video,” Feminism and Documentary, eds. Diane Waldman and Janet Walker 

          (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999): 95-116.

 

“Media Activism,” Encyclopedia of AIDS, ed. Raymond Smith (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998): 346-7.

 

“Make a Video for Me!” in Nancy Roth, ed., Gendered Epidemic (NY: Routledge, 1998):

205-220.

 

“Knowing Each Other Through AIDS Video,” Connected: Engagements With Media, ed. George Marcus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996): 195-220.

 

“The Power and Pleasure of Seeing Science: Knowing AIDS Through the Televised Science Documentary,” in Corrine Squire, ed., Women, Psychology and AIDS (London: Sage Press, 1993): 150-164.

 

 

Articles Published In Journals

“Introduction,” and guest editor for Corpus VI: Women, Gay Men and AIDS (Summer 2006).

 

“Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, and Queer Archive Activism,” GLQ 11, special issue

            on Queer Arts.

 

“Feminist History Making and Video Remains: A Dialogue with Antoinette Burton,” under

            review, Radical History Review.

 

“The Future Was Then: Re-investing in Feminist Media and Politics,” Camera Obscura

           special issue, “Archive for the Future”(forthcoming).

 

“The Crisis in Publishing, In Focus,” editor of and contributor to collection of writings for

            Cinema Journal (forthcoming, Fall 2005).

 

“No Woman is an Object:  Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video,” camera obscura 54

            (2003): 71-98.  

 

                                                                                               

Articles Published In Journals (Continued)

“Victim Stories: Documenting Pain, Punishment, Prison and Power,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 30 (2004): 247-260. Special volume, Punishment, Politics and Culture.

 

“My Sundance: A Global Communist Dispatch,” five commissioned columns as “Artist of the Week” for L’Humanite, a French daily newspaper, January 28-February 1, 2002.

 

“Reality Bytes: Unmaking the Real World in Reality TV,” RES 3:4  (2001): 54-55.

 

“It’s About Autonomy Stupid: Sexuality in Feminist Video,” Sexualities 2:3 (August 1999):

 333-342.

 

“Making AIDS Video as Radical Pedagogy,” Radical Teacher, 50, special issue on media, Linda         Dittmar, ed. (Spring 1997): 23-29.

 

“So Many Alternatives: The Alternative AIDS Video Movement,” Cineaste 20:4 (1994): 32-41.

 

“They Said We Wanted to Show Reality, All I Want to Show is My Video: The Politics of        Feminist, Realist, Documentaries,” Screen 35:2 (Summer 1994): 171-190.

 

“Our Auto-Bodies, Ourselves: Representing Real Women in Feminist Video,” Afterimage        (February 1994): 10-14. Reprinted in Spanish: “Nuestros autocuerpos, Nostras mismas”             (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1998).

 

“WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism and the Making of HIV TV,” camera             obscura, 28, Imaging Technologies/Inscribing Science I (Fall 1992): 135-152.

 

“Shifting Communities/Forming Alliances,” FELIX, 1:3 (Spring 1992): 60-63.

 

“From Within: Alternative AIDS Media By Women,” Praxis 3, special issue,    “AIDS/Abortion/Antibodies” (1992): 23-46.

 

“Invitation Without Hospitality: Exhibition Review of Satellite Cultures,” Visual Anthropology,  4 (October, 1991): 443-450.

 

“Camcorder Politics,” Cinematograph, 4 (1991): 79-86.

 

“Representing Control: The Dismantling of Women’s Sexual Liberation Through Mainstream

            AIDS Documentary,” Journal of Sex Research, 1 (February 1990): 25-46.

 

“Constructing Authority: Documentary Form and AIDS,” Video Guide, 10: 3-4 (November 1989): 10-11. Publication in conjunction with screenings of AIDS tapes by the Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada.

                                                                                               


                                                                                               

 

Selected Papers Presented At Academic Conferences

Visible Evidence: “Media Praxis Repressed! The Consolidation of Cinema Studies” August 2005.

 

National Critics Conference: “Missing in Action: AIDS Video Writing,” May 2005.

 

SCMS: Chair and paper, “Remembering AIDS Video.” March 2005.

 

Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Pitzer College, “Media Praxis,” February 2005.

 

SCS: “Representing Trauma Responsibly,” May 2002.

 

Western States Communication Assoc: “Video and the Public Sphere,” moderator, 2002.

 

MIT Digital Cinema Conference: “Lessons from Feminist Media History,” October 2000.

 

Visible Evidence: “Activist Video, Learning from Feminist Media History,” August 1999.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: “Queers, Jews, Representation.” Panel chair, March 1998.

 

SPE Conference on Beauty: “Inter-Racial Beauty in The Watermelon Woman,” 1997.

 

Visible Evidence: “Making Feminist Film History,” September 1997.

 

Queer Conventions, U.C. Riverside: “Inter-racial Desire in The Watermelon Woman,” 1997.

 

Duke Journal of Women’s Law and Policy Conference on Gender and AIDS:

            “Knowing Each Other Through AIDS Video,” with Juanita Mohammed, Feb. 1997.

 

AAA: “Producing Queerness: New Queer Cinema and Cultural Activism,” November 1996.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: “Above and Beyond the New Queer Cinema,” March 1996.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: “Bad Girls Video: Badder Than Who?” March 1995.

 

OutWrite: “My Life as a Gay Man/Living as a Lesbian,” with Robert Reid-Pharr, March 1995.

 

Visible Evidence: “Identity, Community and AIDS Video,” August 1994.

 

Visible Evidence: First Annual Conference on Documentary: Conference organizer and co-facilitator for screenings, September 1993.

Paper presented: “Feminist Camcorder Videos: Second Wave/Third Wave.”

 

Society for Cinema Studies: Workshop Organizer, “Representing Women’s Health: Appropriating Imaging Technologies for Video Activism,” February 1993.

 

Console-ing Passions: “Constructing Identity Through Alternative AIDS Media,” 1992.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: “Seeing Safer Sex: Resistance, Negotiation, Dread,”

            April 1992.

 

Selected Papers Presented At Academic Conferences (Cont)

Ohio University Film Conference: “Sound and Silence in Alternative AIDS Media.” November 1991.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: Chair for panel, “Representing AIDS Culture.” Talk presented: “Women of the AIDS Culture Represent Themselves.” May 1991.

 

Ohio University Film Conference on Documentary: Chair for panel, “Community Produced Video.” Paper presented: “Camcorder Politics.” November 1990.

 

Society for the Scientific Study of Sex: Workshop Leader for “Representing Women's Sexuality in Sex Education and Sex Therapy Videos.” November 1990.

 

Society for Cinema Studies: “Seeing Control: The Representation of Women’s Sexuality in Mainstream AIDS Documentary.” May, 1990.

 

Popular Culture Association: “Constructing Authority: Documentary Form and AIDS.” March, 1990.

Invited Talks                                                                      

Rutgers University, History Department: Memory, Race and the Archive: 2005.

 

UCLA, Make Art/Stop AIDS: 2004.

 

Fire in the Library, Conversations on the Future: Organized by Eugenia Butler, 2004.

 

Ohio University, Feminist Activist Video, 2004.

 

Middlebury College: Women and Prison, 2003.

 

Harvard University Women of Vision, 2003.

 

Reelife: College of Sante Fe, 2002.

 

4th Women’s Film Festival in Soeul: Activist Video, 2002.

 

Queer Graduation: Selected Speaker, Claremont Colleges, 2002.

 

Pomona College: Documentary and Sociology Conference, 2002.

 

Amherst College: “Naming Prairie and Making Family,” 2002.

 

UC Riverside: Sexualities and Knowledges, featured speaker, 2002.

 

University of Wyoming: “Trauma and Video,” 2001.

 

Persistent Vision: “Fever in the Archive,” 2001.

 

Guggenheim Museum: “Fever in the Archive,” AIDS Activist Video Retrospective, 2000.

 

Outfest: panel moderator, “Lesbianism, Feminism, Film: Where are We Now?” 1999.

 

USC: “Making Alternative Film: The Watermelon Woman,” September 1998.

 

Outfest: “Violence in Queer Cinema,” July 1998.

 

San Francisco Camerawork: “Representing AIDS in a New Decade,” June 1998.

 

CGU: “20 Short Revelations About Feminist Film and Video History,” April 1998.

 

University of Rochester, “AIDS, Feminist History and Black Lesbian Film,” October 1998.

 

Women’s Studies Film Festival, Oakland University: featured speaker, Fall 1997.

 

USC, graduate course on Video with Professor Michael Renov, Summer 1997.

 

USC, “Out of Bounds: Minorities in Film,” The Watermelon Woman, 1997.

 

Independent Feature Project/West, 1997 Independent Financing Conference,     April 1997.

 

NYU, Media, Culture, and Humanities Center: “Autobahn Straight to the Center:

            The Commodification of the New Queer Cinema,” March 1997.


Talks (continued)                                                           

USC: Screening and discussion of The Watermelon Woman, December 1996.

 

UCLA: The Watermelon Woman, lesbian film class, Women’s Studies, April 1996.

 

UCLA: “AIDS TV,” symposium on media and activism, Film Studies, March 1996.

 

Cal State San Bernadino: “Feminist Film and Video,” November 1995.

 

Hampshire College: Workshop on activist video, September 1994.

 

Temple University: MFA Colloquium, presentation on feminist and AIDS video, May 1994.

 

Trenton State University: “AIDS TV: Women and Video,” February 1994.

 

Temple Communications Dept. Colloquium: “Video Art and Activism,” April 1993.

 

Bryn Mawr College: “Pleasure and Danger in Women’s Pornography,” March 1993.

 

Columbia University Film Seminar: Respondent for paper presented by Ella Shohat,             March 1993.

 

Bryn Mawr College: “Hateful Images: Women's Bodies in the Media,” Oct. and Nov. 1992.

 

University of Rochester Screening Series of New Works By Women. Screening and talk. December 1991.

 

Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. “Watching Video/Constructing Community.” Panelist on day long symposium concerning Marginality and Film Reception. Oct. 1991.

 

WE CARE: 50 community screenings and presentations including: The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Donnell Media Center, Women in the Director's Chair Festival, Downtown Community Television Center. Fall, 1990 through Spring, 1991.

 

“Makers as Users Conference.” Speaker on panel concerning activist media production, Hunter College. November, 1990.

 

The Humanities Institute, New York University, “The Reception of Culturally Specific Work by Cultural Outsiders.” November, 1990.

 

 “Videos and Films by Women.” Hunter College, Department of Art. June, 1990.

 

 “A Week of Sundays.” Screening and discussion at St. Clement’s Church on women and AIDS. November, 1989.

 

New film and video, Brown University. “Videos on Women and AIDS.” Screening and discussion of AIDS tapes for weekly seminar. April, 1989.

 

The Kitchen, NY. “Video for Advocacy, Resistance and Self-Empowerment.” Screening and discussion. April, 1988.

 

 

Academic Awards and Honors                                         

ACE Fellow in Academic Administration: Fellowship finalist, 2005.

 

Project Pericles: Course development for “Video and Diversity,” Summer 2004.

 

Pitzer in Ontario Teaching Grant: course development, Summer 2003.

 

NEH Summer Seminar: Punishment, Society and Culture, Amherst College, 2002.

 

Mellon Intercultural Learning Through Technology Grant, 2001.

 

CCCSI: Summer Research Grant for Community Video, 2000.

 

Mellon Project of the Claremont Colleges: Summer Research Grant, 1997.

 

Irvine Enterprise Award for Service Learning: To support participation in “ISM.” 1 of 12 schools selected for national Ford Foundation funded project, 1995.

 

Mellon Fellowship: Bryn Mawr College, 1994-95.

 

The Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video: Criticism Grant for the         completion of the article “Body/Image in Women’s Video.”

 

Society for Cinema Studies: Dissertation Award, First Place, 1993.

 

Amherst College. Copeland Fellow for dissertation research and writing. A residential fellowship for the Spring term, 1991.

 

New York University. Jay Leyda Memorial Award, 1988; Lew and Eddie Wasserman Scholarship, 1986-87. Teaching and Graduate Assistantships, 1987-1990.

 

Amherst College. Henry P. Field and Amherst Memorial Fellowships, 1986-90; George Rogers Taylor Prize, 1986. Phi Beta Kappa. Summa Cum Laude.

 

Artist’s Grants and Fellowships                                

Nominee: Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship (1994, 2000, 2002)

            Alpert Award in the Arts (2003)

 

C-100, Inc., Production support for Released, 2000.

 

Astraea Fund for Women: post-production grant for Women of Vision, 1998. 

 

California Council on the Humanities: Research Award for Women of Vision, 1994.

 

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Second Place in Student Documentary      for Safer and Sexier: A College Student’s Guide to Safer Sex, 1994.

 

Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Completion Grant, 1992.

 

New York Foundation for the Arts. Video Fellowship, 1991.

 

New York Council for the Arts. Distribution Grant, 1991.

 

Women Make Movies. Editing Award, 1990.

 

New York Council for the Humanities. Pre-Production and Production Grants, 1989-90.

 

Astraea Fund for Women. Production Grant, 1990.

 

ArtMatters. Production Grant, 1989.

 

Global Village. Artist-in-Residence Grant, 1988.


 

Selected Video Exhibitions and Screenings

International Film Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Hong Kong, Creteil, Seoul, Flaherty.

 

Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals: New York, LA, San Francisco, Toronto, Torino, Paris.

 

Museums: The Whitney Biennial, Guggenheim, New Museum, Museo del Bario, LACE,

London ICA, Wexner Center for the Arts.

 

Community: College campuses nationwide. AIDS service organizations nationwide.

 

TV/net: Sundance, BET, IFC, Free Speech TV, community access, atomfilms.com.

 

*Video Remains: MIX, New Festival, Outfest, Flaherty Seminar, 2005.

            Rutgers, UCLA, UCSB.

 

Dear Gabe: Seoul International Women’s, Berlin Lesbian Film Festival. New York, San

 Francisco, Los Angeles, Rochester Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals, 2003.

 

Naming Prairie: Official selection, Sundance 2002. New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals. Cleaveland Int.

Airs: Through the Lens. Seventh Art Releasing.