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ALEXANDRA JEANNE JUHASZ
Media Studies, Pitzer College
1050 North Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711

(909) 607-4431
alexandra_juhasz@pitzer.edu

    Education   :   Teaching Experience   :   Published Books   :   Articles
Papers   :   Talks   :   Awards   :   Grants   :   Service

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, 2005-2007.
   Professor: Cultural Studies, Art, English Departments: 1997-present.

Pitzer College
   Media history, theory, and production, women's and cultural studies.
   Professor, 2003-present.
   Associate Professor: 1997-2003.
   Assistant Professor: 1995-1997.
   Associate Dean of the Faculty: 2004-2005.

Bryn Mawr College
  Mellon Fellow in Race, Sexuality and Representation, 1994-1995.

Swarthmore College
  Assistant Professor, English and Women's Studies, 1991-1994.

New York University
  Adjunct Instructor, Cinema Studies, 1990.

PUBLISHED BOOKS


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

Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media
Transcripts from 20 interviews in feminist film and video history.
(University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing
Ed. with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming, 2006).

Media Praxis: A Radical Anthology Integrating Theory, Production and Practice
(www.mediapraxis.org, 2008)

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN BOOKS

"Why (Not) to Teach on YouTube," The Video Vortex Reader, (forthcoming 2008).

"Video in the Sight of Tran T. Trang,"
The Blindness Series, ed. Tran T. Trang
(under contract review).

"The Other Inters," in Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice, eds. Joe Parker and
Ranu Samantrai (under contract review).

"My iManifesto," in First Person Films, Alisa Lebow, ed.
(Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, under review)

"Teaching Media Praxis," in Teaching Film Studies, Patrice Petro, ed.
(NY: MLA Press, forthcoming).

"Learning from You Tube," in Re-Thinking Documentary, ed. Thomas Austin
(NY: McGraw Hill, 2008).

"The Failures of the Flesh and the Revival of AIDS Activism," in Failure: Experiments in Aesthetics and Social Practices, eds. Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey and Robbie Herbst
(LA: The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007): 135-142.

"From the Scenes of Queens: Genre, AIDS and Queer Love," in The Cinema of Todd Haynes,
ed. James Morrison (London: Wallflower Press, 2006).

"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.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS


"Learning from Fred," Teacher's College Record (forthcoming).

"The 5 Lessons of YouTube," Cinema Journal, In Focus on Digital Learning, ed. Tara McPherson (forthcoming).

"MP:Me: Variant of a Manifesta," in "Experiments in Documentary," special issue of Millennium Film Journal, ed. Lucas Hilderbrand with Lynne Sachs, no. 51 (Fall 2008).

"Introduction," and guest editor for Corpus V: Women, Gay Men and AIDS (March 2006).

"Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, and Queer Archive Activism,"
GLQ 12: 2 (Spring 2006), "Art Works: A Special issue of GLQ," coedited by Richard Meyer & David Román.

"Feminist History Making and Video Remains: A Dialogue with Antoinette Burton," Jump Cut, 48 (Winter 2006).

"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 44: 3 (Spring 2005).

"No Woman is an Object: Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video," camera obscura 54
(2003): 71-98.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"PUBLICATIONS" ON THE INTERNET

"Learning from YouTube: An Interview with Alexandra Juhasz,"
Confessions on an Aca-Fan, February 20 and 22, 2008:
henryjenkins.org/2008/02/learning_from_youtube_an_inter.html

"Teaching on YouTube," OpenCulture, February 22, 2008:
www.oculture.com/2008/04/teaching_on_youtube.htm

Blog entries, Media Praxis. Summer 2007-present: www.aljean.wordpress.com

Video on YouTube. Fall 2007-present: www.youube.com/mediapraxisme.

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES


Future of Writing: Learning from YouTube, UCI, 2008.

OURMedia7: What YouTube Teaches Activists, 2008.

Console-ing Passions: Learning from Learning from YouTube, 2008.

SCMS: MP:me: Variant of a Manifesta and Creating Complex Expression of YouTube, 2008.

NITTLE: Learning from YouTube, 2008.

Int. Comm. Assoc.: Queer Realism on You Tube, May 2007.

SCMS: Teaching Media Praxis: Integrating Theory, Politics and Practice, March 2007.

American Comp. Lit. Assoc: Third Cinema and You Tube, April 2007.

Int. Comm. Assoc.: Queer Realism on You Tube, May 2007.

Flow: Roundtable on Media Publishing, October 2006.

SCMS: "From the Scenes of Drag Queens: Todd Haynes, Genre and Queer Love," 2006.

MESEA 5: "Re-Mapping Video Theory: The Sights of T. Kim-Trang Tran," April 2006.

Visible Evidence: "Media Praxis Repressed! The Consolidation of Cinema Studies" 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 Regional Conference on Beauty: "Inter-Racial Beauty in The Watermelon Woman," November 1997.

Visible Evidence: "Making Feminist Film History," September 1997.

Queer Conventions, U.C. Riverside: "Inter-racial Desire in The Watermelon Woman," April 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.

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


University of Iowa: Keynote address, Avant-Doc: Intersections of the Avant-Garde and Documentary, 2009.

UC Riverside: AIDS, Memory and Activism. 2008.

CUNY Grad Center, CLAGS, AIDS/Art/Work, 2008.

Fowler Museum, UCLA, To Dream and Dance with the Censor: AIDS Video, 2008.

LACE, Institutions at Risk (Cultural Institutions and the AIDS Crisis), 2008.

USC: DIY Summit, The State of the Art, Learning from YouTube, 2008.

Pacific Film Archive, F is for Phony, 2008.

University of Oregon: Screening and faculty seminar on Black Male Sexuality, 2007.

Claremont Graduate University: Bradshaw Conference, Politics of Culture, 2007.

Irvine: Keywords: Immunity: 2006.

Cal Arts: AIDS and Video, 2006.

UCLA: Symposium: Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults: 2006.

Scripps Humanities Institute: F is for Phony: 2005.

UCSB: Keynote Speaker, Looking Beyond the Written Word, "Media Praxis," 2005.

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.

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.

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.


Visit Alex at these exciting
online communities:

WordPress Blog http://aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class www.youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Radical Media Site www.mediapraxis.org

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" project. One of 12 schools selected for national Ford Foundation funded video project.

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


Wexner Center for the Arts: Editing Fellowship, Summer 2007.

Columbia College Institute for Women and Gender in the Media and Arts.
Research grant for SCALE (2007).

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.

SERVICE: PITZER COLLEGE


Advancement, Promotion and Tenure: elected committee, 2008-10.

Chair, Diversity Committee: 2004-2005.

Chair, Committee on Campus Climate and Civility: 2004-2005.

Co-chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Educational Objectives, 2004-2005.

Trustees Committee on Social Responsibility: 2004-2005.

Elected to Faculty Executive Committee: 2000-2002.

Diversity Committee: 2001-2002.

Academic Standards Committee: 1999-2000.

Chair, Academic Events Committee, 1996-1997; member 1995-1996.

Voting member, Gender and Feminist Studies field group, 1995-1997.

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 2001-2003)
  Imagining Labor (the Forum, 2001-2002)
  F is for Phony (the Forum, 2000)
  InMediate Future (Weigund Grant, 1999)

Alumni in Media, Day-Long Conference, 2001.

IWW. Member, 2001-present.

Presentations: Alumni Weekends, Parent's Days, 1995-present.

Media Studies Job Search Committees: Pomona (2), CMC (1), Pitzer (2)

SERVICE: TO THE FIELD


Resolutions3, Contemporary Video Art Practices, Advisory Committee, 2008-09.

WASC Accreditation Evaluation Team Member for Art Center College of Design, 2007.

Cinema Journal Editorial Board: 2003-8.

Outsider Evaluator for APT:
   Boston University, USC, 2008.
   Harvey Mudd, 2007.
   CU Boulder, Summer 2007;
   Boston University, 2006;
   UCLA, Loyola Marymount, Harvey Mudd College, 2005.
   American Univ., Irvine, 2004;
   UCSD, 2003;
   Occidental College, CGU, UCLA Art, 2002;
   Univ of Rochester, UCLA, 2001;
   University of Denver, 2000.

Manuscript Reviews for Duke University Press, University of Minnesota Press,
GLQ, Canadian Journal of Film Studies.

Dissertation and Master's Chair for graduate studies in Cultural Studies at CGU.

Documentary competition judge, Outfest, 2002.

Women in the Director's Chair 20th Anniversary, Honorary Chairperson, 2000.


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