Name: Alexandra Juhasz
Biography:
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Chair of the Film Department, Brooklyn College. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth.
Her current work is on fake news, online feminist pedagogy, YouTube, and other more radical uses of digital media. Her work in critical digital studies and community is happening at #100hardtruths-#fakenews and ev-ent-anglement.com.
Awards/ Accomplishments:
She is the author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2005), Learning from YouTube (MIT Press, 2011), A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film,co-edited with Alisa Lebow (Blackwell Press, 2015), and Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking, co-edited with Yvonne Welbon (Duke University Press, 2018).
Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy. She has directed the feature documentaries SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age(2008), Video Remains (2005), Dear Gabe (2003) and Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video (1998), and the shorts RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Film (2000) and Naming Prairie (2001), a Sundance Film Festival, 2002, official selection.
She is the producer of the feature films The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010).
She and Anne Balsamo were the first co-facilitators of the network, FemTechNet, which debuted its feminist rethinking of a MOOC, a Distributed Online Open Course in 2013. The “Dialogues in Feminist Technology” project continues at femtechnet.newschool.edu.
Filmography:
Director:
2007 – Scale: Measuring Might in the Media Age (Video documentary)
2005 – Video Remains (Video documentary)
2003 – Dear Gabe (Video documentary)
2002 – Naming Prairie (Short)
1998 – Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film & Video (Documentary)
Producer:
2010 – The Owls (producer)
2005 – Knives in My Throat: The Year I Survived While My Mind Tried to Kill Me(Documentary) (consulting producer)
1998 – Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film & Video (Documentary) (producer)
1997 – Bad Bosses Go to Hell (Short) (producer)
1996 – The Watermelon Woman (producer)
Bibliography:
AIDS and the Distribution of Crisis, ed. with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani (under contract review).
AIDS Crisis Revisitation: Conversations on Media, Memory and HIV, with Theodore Kerr (seeking press).
Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Mediamaking (1986 – 2011), ed. With Yvonne Welbon (Duke University Press, forthcoming, 2018)
Blackwell Companion to Film Studies: Documentary. Co-editor with Alisa Lebow (Blackwell Press, 2015).
Learning from YouTube (2011, The MIT Press).
F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, Ed. with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media, Transcripts from 20 interviews in feminist film and video history.(University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
AIDS TV, Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995).
*Information retrieved from IMDB, Wikipedia, and or Artists website*