Alexandra Juhasz

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is a core faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU (1991) and attended the Whitney Independent Studio program as a videomaker (1988).

Dr. Juhasz has taught at NYU, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Claremont Graduate University, USC, Pitzer College, and Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY about YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film and video as well as media production, history and theory.

Dr. Juhasz writes about and makes feminist, queer, fake, and AIDS documentary. Her current work attends to fake news, poetry, online feminist pedagogy, YouTube, and other more radical uses of digital media and their archives.

Her work as media artist, curator, and writer engages with linked social justice commitments, including COVID-19, AIDS, black queer and lesbian media, feminist and queer/trans film, and activist archives and collectives. She publishes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review.

Books :

Dr. Juhasz’s first book, AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1996) considers the contributions of low-end video production to political organizing and individual and community growth.

Women of Vision (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) is a companion piece to Juhasz’s 1998 documentary of the same name. The book presents the complete interviews, allowing readers to hear directly the voices of these articulate, passionate women in an interactive remembering of feminist media history. Juhasz’s introduction provides a historical, theoretical, and aesthetic context for the interviews.

An earlier large-scale digital effort is Media Praxis: A Radical Web-Site Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics.

Recent Projects :

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Featured Interviews :

What Remains: Alexandra Juhasz, Stefan Tarnowski, and Jonathan Giesen

What Remains: Alexandra Juhasz, Stefan Tarnowski, and Jonathan Giesen

Episode 5, World Records' audio series, Trust Issues, with Jason Fox ...
The Power of Storytelling with Asma Naimi, podcast

The Power of Storytelling with Asma Naimi, podcast

The Doing Things with Stories (DTwS) project is an invitation for passionate changemakers to collectively imagine a better future by creating conditions of narrative change and meaningful interventions and approaches ...
‘I’m This. I’m That. I’m Many Things’: Pratibha Parmar on Andrea Dworkin and ‘My Name Is Andrea’

‘I’m This. I’m That. I’m Many Things’: Pratibha Parmar on Andrea Dworkin and ‘My Name Is Andrea’

Queer feminist American scholar and video maker, Alexandra Juhasz, invited Pratibha Parmar, woman of color feminist and queer British filmmaker, to talk together about her most recent film, My Name ...

Narrative Feature Films :

The Watermelon Woman 20th Year Re-Master and Re-Release

The Watermelon Woman 20th Year Re-Master and Re-Release

Re-released for its 20th anniversary in a pristine 2K HD restoration, The Watermelon Woman is the story of Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye), a twenty-something black lesbian struggling to make a documentary ...
Distributed by the Criterion Collection
The OWLS

The OWLS

Four aging lesbians accidentally kill a baby-dyke and live to suffer the consequences. Ten years ago, The Screech was the hottest lesbian band around. But the mighty musicians have fallen ...
Digital video

Dr. Juhasz produced the narrative feature films, The Owls (2010) and The Watermelon Woman (1996), as well as nearly fifteen educational documentaries on feminist issues like teenage sexuality, AIDS, and sex education.

Featured Documentaries :

We Need Gentle Truths for Now Podcast

We Need Gentle Truths for Now Podcast

We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news ...
DiAna’s Hair Ego REMIX

DiAna’s Hair Ego REMIX

Cheryl Dunye and Ellen Spiro, directors. Screened at Whitney Museum, Schomburg Center, nationally and internationally. In 1989, Ellen Spiro directed the short film, DiAna’s ...
COMPULSIVE PRACTICE

COMPULSIVE PRACTICE

A video compilation by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they ...
SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age

SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age

A documentary about ending the war in the media age. Ours is a time of illicit war, unchecked corporate greed, and a presidential regime ...
Video Remains

Video Remains

Producer/Writer/Director. Remembers and mourns the AIDS deaths and activism of the 1980s through one long-take interview of a dying friend. Queer Fests: London, NY, ...
Dear Gabe

Dear Gabe

Producer/Writer/Director. 6 college friends, feminists all, make diverse choices about creating and raising family. Queer and straight, black, white and in-between, Jewish and uncertain, ...
RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison

RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison

Six media artists collaborate with women prisoners to represent new visions of this crisis. From its opening statements by former inmate Angela Davis, to ...
Naming Prairie

Naming Prairie

Producer/Writer/Director. Sundance official selection 2002. Queer Fests (NY, LA, SF, Toronto). Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco). A lesbian couple celebrates their daughter & family ...

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Alexandra Juhasz