Alexandra Juhasz, PhD
Professor of Media Studies

Expertise Areas

Documentary video production; women's film and feminist film theory.

Additional Information

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Recent Exhibitions

Uncommon Practice, Pitzer College Faculty Show, Nichols Gallery, Claremont, CA, Spring/Summer 2008.

Recent Film and Video

Producer, "The Owls" (Cheryl Dunye, 2010), premiered Berlin International Film Festival, February 2010. Screened Festivals: Seoul (April 2010), Torino (April 2010), Toronto (May 2010), Seattle (May 2010), New York (June 2010), Los Angeles (July 2010), Tei Pei (July 2010).

Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

Visible Evidence: Institutionalized Lesbian Cinema and its Revolutionary Roots, Istanbul, August 2010.

Queer You(th) Tube (via YouTube), Digital Media and Learning Conference, UCSD, February 2010.

Queer Mentorship: The Future of LGBTQ Film Studies, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, March 2010.

Contradictions of a Process Archive, American Studies Association, Washington DC, October 2009.

Visible Evidence: An Archive of Process: Women's Building Video, Los Angeles, July 2009.

YouTube's Ironic Free-Fall, College Art Association, Los Angeles, January 2009.

Women in View: Sex, Money, Media: Keynote Speaker, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2010.

Women, Poverty and Globalization Series, Revolt on YouTube, UC Berkeley, September 2010.

Center for Arts in Society, Collaboration in Media Studies, Carnegie Mellon, March 2010.

Youth Media, Sensory Ability and Visual Culture: Learning from Fred, UC San Diego, April 2010.

The Corpus of Corpus, UC Riverside, April 2010.

Animating Archives, "Publishing Learning from YouTube," Brown University, November 2009.

New Trends in Media Studies Speaker's Series, "Publishing Learning from YouTube," UC Santa Cruz, February 2009.

Ulrike Ottinger Symposium: A Critical Symposium, Boston University, October 2009.

Activism, Art and the AIDS Crisis, Remarks, Harvard University, October 2009.

Keynote address, Avant-Doc: Intersections of the Avant-Garde and Documentary, "Irony is Ubiquitous," University of Iowa, March 2009.

Recent Public Commentary

Professor Juhasz and her fall course titled "Learning from YouTube" caught the attention of the news media and were featured in numerous newspaper articles as well as television and radio broadcasts. Most notably Professor Juhasz and Miranda Perry '08 were interviewed by CNN American Morning anchor Kiran Chetry on September 20, 2007, and Juhasz was interviewed on Fox and Friends weekend edition on September 28. Articles on Juhasz and her course also appeared in USA Today, The Boston Globe and Inside Higher Ed.

Professor Juhasz was also quoted in an April 17, 2008, the Washington Post article titled "Upper-Crass Video: Maybe the Rich Aren't Different" about a YouTube video that has attracted a variety of media attention and thousands of viewers.

Recent Scholarly Publications

Books
Media Praxis: A Radical Anthology Integrating Theory, Production and Practice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Articles and Book Chapters

"The Other Inters," in Inter-disciplinarity and Social Justice, eds. Joe Parker and Ranu Samantrai (SUNY Press, 2010): 151-173.

"AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor (2010) Jump Cut: www.ejumpcut.org.

"An Archive of Process," Otis College of Art catalogue for Art of the Woman's Building (Fall, 2010).

"Learning The Five Lessons of YouTube," Cinema Journal 48:2 (Winter 2009), In Focus on Digital Learning, ed. Tara McPherson: 145-150.

"MP:Me: Variant of a Manifesta," in "Experiments in Documentary," special issue of Millennium Film Journal, ed., Lucas Hilderbrand with Lynne Sachs, 51 (Spring/Summer 2009): 30-32.

"The Views of the Feminist Archive," FLOW 11:14, http://flowtv.org/?p=4996. (2010). http://flowtv.org/?p=4996.

"The Increasingly UnProductive Fake," No More Potlucks 4 (July-August 2009). http://nomorepotlucks.org

"Learning The 5 Lessons of YouTube," International Journal of Learning and Media 1:1 (Winter 2009). http://ijlm.net