Alexandra Jeanne Juhasz
Media Studies,
W: (909) 607-4431 alexandra_juhasz@pitzer.edu
Education
Education,
Summer 2004.
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
Phi Beta Kappa.
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Professor: Cultural Studies, Art, English Departments: 1997-present.
Professor,
2003-present. Associate Professor: 1997-03. Assistant Professor: 1995-97.
Associate Dean
of the Faculty: 2004-05.
Books
AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke
University Press, 1995).
Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (
Media Praxis:
A Radical Anthology Integrating Theory, Production and Practice (under
consideration, Minnesota University Press)
Articles
Published In Books
“From the Scenes of
ed. James
Morrison (
“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 (
“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,
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:
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)
Society for Cinema Studies: Chair for
panel, “Representing AIDS Culture.” Talk presented: “Women of the AIDS Culture
Represent Themselves.” May 1991.
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
UCLA, Make
Art/Stop AIDS: 2004.
Fire in the
Library, Conversations on the Future: Organized by Eugenia Butler,
2004.
Reelife:
4th
Women’s Film Festival in Soeul: Activist
Video, 2002.
Queer
Graduation:
Selected Speaker,
UC Riverside: Sexualities
and Knowledges, featured speaker, 2002.
Persistent
Vision: “Fever
in the Archive,” 2001.
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.
CGU: “20 Short
Revelations About Feminist Film and Video History,”
April 1998.
Women’s
Studies Film Festival,
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
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.
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,
The Humanities Institute,
“Videos
and Films by Women.”
“A
Week of Sundays.” Screening and discussion at St. Clement’s Church on women and AIDS. November, 1989.
New film and video,
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
NEH Summer
Seminar:
Punishment, Society and Culture,
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.
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,
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.
Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences,
Women Make
Movies.
Editing Award, 1990.
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:
Gay and
Lesbian Film Festivals:
Museums: The Whitney
Biennial, Guggenheim, New Museum, Museo del Bario, LACE,
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.
Dear
Gabe:
Francisco,
Naming
Prairie: Official
selection, Sundance 2002.
Airs: Through the Lens. Seventh Art Releasing.
RELEASED:
currently
enjoying grassroots distribution to prisoners and prison rights organizations. Airs on Free speech TV.
Women of
Vision: Cal Arts,
Occidental College, USC, University of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins University,
Creteil Women’s Film Festival; New York, Toronto, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Tampa Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals.
Safer and
Sexier:
Distributed to college AIDS peer educators nationwide.
WE CARE: Donnell
Media Center’s “Meet the Maker,” The Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum, WNET’s “Independent Focus,” Women in the Director’s Chair
Festival, Museo del Bario
Festival of Hispanic Film and Video, 50 community screenings in New York City,
500 free tapes distributed to AIDS service organizations nationwide with NYSCA
grant.
Women and AIDS and Prostitutes
Risk and AIDS: The New Museum, Dia Art
Foundation, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Ohio State University
“AIDS: The Artist’s Response,” The Hong Kong and San Francisco Gay and Lesbian
Film Festivals, The Kitchen, Hall Walls Gallery, DCTV, national and
international AIDS conferences.
Self
Protection: Included in Video Databank's collection of Reproductive
Rights Videos; distributed to high schools and social workers in
The Watermelon Woman
First Run Features.
Producer.
1995, 16mm.
Winner “Teddy Bear” Berlin Film
Festival, Audience Awards at Creteil Women’s
Festival, Torino,
Short Film Production
Bad Bosses Go To Hell
Killer Films.
Producer.
1997. 7 minutes, 16mm.
Feminist
comedy about the trials and tribulations of job hunting. Screened at
Airs on the
IFC, HBO Latin America, PBS, British Airlways, and
atomfilms.com.
Documentary Video Production
Here are your Orders: Help Stop the Ecomomic Invasion of
Digital video. 15 mins. Producer/Director.
In production, summer 2005.
Introduces audience to Chapter 2 of The Bush Plan: Invading the World One
Economy at
a Time, Antonia Juhasz (NY: Reagen Books, 2005).
Video REmains
Digital video. 54 mins. Producer/Writer/Director.
2005.
Remembers and mourns the AIDS deaths
and activism of the 1980s through one long-
take interview of
a dying friend.
Dear Gabe
Digital video. 50 mins. Producer/Writer/Director.
2003.
6 college friends, feminists all, make
diverse choices about creating and raising family.
Naming Prairie
Beta-SP. 6 mins. Producer/Writer/Director.
Sundance, 2002, official selection.
Queer Fests
(NY, LA, SF,
A lesbian couple celebrates their
daughter & family with a Jewish babynaming
ceremony.
RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison
27:30 minutes. Digital
Video. Producer. 2001.
Women in the
Director’s Chair, Queer Fests (NY, LA, SF,
6 media artists collaborate with women
prisoners to represent new visions of this crisis.
Documentary Video Production (Cont)
Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video
82:40; 3 part
television documentary series. BETA SP.
Distributed by
Cinema Guild.
Interviews eighteen scholars, makers,
distributors and critics involved in this history.
Screened at Creteil
Women’s Festival;
Safer and Sexier: A College Student’s Guide to Safer Sex
May, 1993, 18 Minutes
2nd Prize,
Collaborative educational video by AIDS
peer educators.
LITTLE QUESTIONS/BIG QUESTIONS: THE CASE FOR FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION
September, 1992, 27 Minutes
Produced by
the
Explains the
need for K-3 family life education.
EXCITED, ANGRY, ACTIVE, VOCAL: Women Out Loud
May, 1992, 30 minutes
Produced by
Alexandra Juhasz with grant from New York Foundation
for the Arts, and the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association.
Collective
video about college women’s attitudes towards women’s politics in the 90s.
BODIES, BIRTH AND BABIES: Teaching Healthy Foundations
April, 1992, 15 minutes
Produced by
Planned Parenthood,
Short
“trigger” video to demonstrate healthy conversation about sexuality between
teachers and preschoolers for use in day-long teacher training workshops.
WE CARE: A
Video for Careproviders of People Affected by AIDS and A WAVE Taster
August, 1990. 32 minutes each.
Produced by
The Women's AIDS Video
Awarded New
York Council for the Humanities mini-grant and production grant. Funded by The
Astraea Fund for Women, ArtMatters,
Women Make Movies and NYSCA.
Women’s “video-support” group met for
six months learning to produce their own educational AIDS tapes for their
community.
Documentary Video Production (continued)
Talking About
It: Five
May 1990, 45 minutes.
Sponsored by
The N.J. Network for Family Life Education.
Training video
for family life education teachers in NJ public schools.
Self
Protection: Teen Mothers Expand Their Options
June 1989, 10 minutes.
Produced for
The Expanding Options for Teen Mothers Program.
A music-video
of rap songs written by teenage mothers.
A Test for the
Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
February 1989, 28 minutes.
Produced for G.M.H.C.’s
“Living With AIDS” cable show.
Places AIDS into framework of
reproductive rights and women’s health care.
Teens Tell The Facts
January 1989, 6 minutes.
Produced for
Stanton House, a girl's group home.
Frank discussion of sexuality issues by
teenage girls.
Prostitutes,
Risk And AIDS
May 1988, 28 minutes.
Produced for
G.M.H.C., “Living With AIDS.”
Places
ineffective and punitive AIDS legislation responding to prostitution into the
larger context of the representation of prostitution in film and the mainstream
media.
A New
Tradition: Counseling Safer Sex and Condom Talk
June 1988, 30
minutes and 5 mins.
Produced for
Planned Parenthood of
Training tape
explaining the integration of safer sex counseling into family planning.
Trigger tape for teenagers to raise
issues about discussing condom use with partner.
Another
Documentary About the
January 1988, 18 minutes.
Funded by
Global Village, Artist-In-Residence Grant.
Experimental
documentary challenging the cinema verite,
on-the-street, documentary.
Living With
AIDS: Women and AIDS
December 1987, 28 minutes.
Produced for
G.M.H.C., “Living With AIDS.”
Places women's
issues concerning AIDS into a larger social, political and cultural framework. Includes
basic safer sex and clean works education.
Service:
Chair,
Diversity Committee: 2004-5.
Chair,
Committee on Campus Climate and Civility: 2004-5.
Co-chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Educational Objectives,
2004-5.
Trustees
Committee on Social Responsibility: 2004-5.
Elected to Faculty Executive Committee: 2000-2002.
Diversity
Committee: 2001-02.
Academic
Standards Committee: 1999-2000.
Chair, Academic Events Committee, 1996-97; member 1995-96.
Voting member, Gender and Feminist Studies field group,
1995-7.
Founding
member, inter-collegiate Media Studies group, 1995-present.
Chair, Media
Studies Program, Pitzer College, 1995-present.
Founding
Member, Lamda Committee on GLBT of the Claremont
Colleges, Spring, 1997.
Screening
Series, Organized and Funded:
Pitzer Cinematheque
(funded by the Pitzer Forum 2001-03)
Imagining Labor (the Forum, 2001-02)
F is for Phony (the Forum, 2000)
InMediate Future (Weigund Grant, 1999)
Get on the Bus (2005)
Flaherty Seminar (2005)
Alumni in Media, Day-Long Conference, 2001.
IWW. Member, 2001-present.
Presentations:
Alumni Weekends, Parent’s Days, 1995-present.
Media
Studies Job Search Committees:
Service: To
the Field
Cinema Journal Editorial
Board: 2003-8.
Outsider
Evaluator for APT:
UCSD, 2003.
Dissertation and Master’s committees for graduate theses in
Cultural Studies at CGU.
Women in the Director’s Chair 20th Anniversary,
Honorary Chairperson, 2000.
Documentary competition judge, Outfest,
2002.