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Alexandra Juhasz

Distinguished Professor
Film

Location: 217 West End Building
Phone: 718.951.5664
Fax: 718.951.4733
Email:   Alexandra Juhasz's Web site

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz teaches, makes, and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She has a PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU and is the author of AIDS TV (Duke, 1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (Minnesota, 2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing with Jesse Lerner (Minnesota, 2005), Learning from YouTube (MIT Press, 2011), The Blackwell Companion on Contemporary Documentary with Alisa Lebow (2016), with Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African-American Lesbian Filmmaking (Duke 2018), AIDS and the Distribution of Crises with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani (Duke 2020), and Really Fake with Nishant Shan (U MN Press, 2021). She is the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy and the feature films The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). Her personal website is: Alexandrajuhasz.com.

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