Education:
PhD, New York University - 1992 (Cinema Studies)
BA, Amherst College - 1986 (English and American Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Dr. Juhasz's current projects are on and about the feminist Internet including pedagogy, affect, and her Fake News Poetry Workshops: fakenews-poetry.org and their related online primer #100hardtruths-#fakenews. She works as an AIDS and COVID activist and cultural worker as a member of the collective, What Would an HIV Doula Do?; and through writing, including We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Five Times of AIDS (forthcoming Duke, 2021) written with Theodore Kerr.
Books and Publications
"Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't Save: Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media
Archive" and "Setting the Terms of our Own Visibility: A Conversation with Sam Feder on Trans Activist Media," in Robé & Charbonneau, eds., InsUrgent Media from the Front (Indiana, 2020): 87-105 & 67-86.
"Fake News Poetry Workshop as Radical Digital Media Literacy," in Quaid & Rhee, eds. Urgent Possibilities: Writing on Feminist Poetics (LA: eohippis labs, 2019): 3-10.
"Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script to Reflexively Extend Engagement by Way of Technologies," with LS Sakr and B Getnick in Losh & Werimont, eds. Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and DH (Univ of MN Press, 2019): 203-229.
"Nothing is Unwatchable for All," in Unwatchable, eds. Baer, Hennefeld, et al (NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 2019): 121-125.
"#cut/paste+bleed: Entangling Feminist Affect," in Sayers, ed. Routledge Companion to Media Studies and DH (Routledge: 2018): 18-32.
See alexandrajuhasz.com for writing previous to 2018
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"When Are You Going to Catch Up with Me? Shu Lea Cheang with Alexandra Juhasz,"
camera obscura 105, Vol 35: 3 (2020): 117-131.
"AIDS Normalization," with Ted Kerr, X-tra (Summer 2020): 33-77.
"Informed Historical Reveries," Special Issue of Feminist Media Histories on Activism,
co-edited and "Introduction" with Angela Aguayo. Vol. 5 Issue 4, October 2019, 1-18:
https://fmh.ucpress.edu/content/5/4.
"New Formats for Revisits: Invisible Wins: Mentoring, Diversity, and Inclusion in the
Media" (podcast with Megan Cunningham), and "Coda: In Love, Anger, and Loss, Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann," for Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 5 Issue 4, October 2019: 19-20, 66-67, 87-105.
"The Words and Worlds of Carolee Schneemann and Barbara Hammer with Two Thoughts
by Agnes Varda," Another Gaze: A feminist film journal 3 (July 2019): 24-30.
See alexandrajuhasz.com for online articles before 2019.
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995).
Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing, ed. with Jesse Lerner
(University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
Learning from YouTube (The MIT Press, 2011).
Blackwell Companion to Film Studies: Documentary, ed. with Alisa Lebow (2015).
Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Mediamaking (1986-2011),
ed. with Yvonne Welbon (Duke, 2018).
AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, ed. with Nishant Shahani and Jih-Fei Cheng (Duke 2020).
Really Fake! with Nishant Shah (U MN and meson Presses, 2021).
We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, with Theodore Kerr (Duke University Press, 2022).
(Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2021
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
SCMS: "Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy," March 2021.
SSRC: Beyond Disinformation: "Authenticity, Performativity, and Performance" with Ioana Jucan and
Melody Devries, October 2020.
Re-thinking Marginalized Identities in Pandemics, Sant'Anna Institute and Wake Forest University
Virtual Colloquium, "You Are Still Sick," with Pato Hebert, October 2020.
Global Storytelling: Invitational conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, "Beyond Story
and its Aftermath," January 2020.
see alexandrajuhasz.com for conference presentations before 2020 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
University of Groningen, Fake News Poetry Workshop Post-Trump, December 2020.
Gorizia-Udine Spring School, Keynote, "Media Literacy and Activism Against Pandemic Conditions,"
November 2020.
Williams College, HIV in Film class, presentation on HIV and COVID with Ted Kerr, November 2020.
MIT, "Gender and Media," FNPW with Dr. Karl Surkan, October 2020.
Brooklyn College, FNPW with Prof. Rosamond King, Beginning and Advanced
Poetry, October 2020.
Brown University, "Beyond Disinformation: Performance and Authenticity Workshop," with Ioana
Jucan and Melody Devries, Sept 2020.
Univ of TX, Dallas, Dean's Colloquium, "Collaboration, Creativity & Cyberfeminism," Sept 2020.
NYU: Guest lecture/visiting artist, Television History course, April 2020.
University of Buffalo, My Phone Lies to Me (for DSSN and Media Studies) and
Grad Seminar on the Interview with Paige Sarlin, March 2020.
San Diego State, AIDS & the Distribution of Crises, with Jih-Fei Cheng and Judy Cisneros,
March 2020.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Professional Leadership
Berlinale, Teddy Talks: "Similarities and Disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV/AIDS epidemic," March 2021.
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, What Would a COVID-Doula Do? November 2020.
Womxn Owning It Summit, Above the Line + Below the Line: Advocating for Women Across
the Industry, IFP, Moderator, December 2020.
CUNY Grad Center, DHI Lightning Talks, October 2020.
Dispatches on Temporality: AIDS and Covid-19, online book launch, AIDS and the Distribution of
Crises, May 2020.
I Don't Respond Well To Doomsday Scenarios, Metanoia Zine workshop, Zoom, May 2020.
Collecting and Curating for Change, Metanoia public programming, One Gallery, February 2020.
Women, Incarceration and Video Program, Metanoia, The ONE and the Center, January 2020.
Poetry Project New Year's Day, with HIV Doulas, January 2020.
(Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2021
Community Activities
COLLECTIVE VISIONS: THE PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE OF FEMINIST MEDIA
Three largescale Zoom events sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, CG, CUNY.
Nov 16 and 17, 2020. Recordings and writings available here: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/collective-visions-the-past-present-and-future-of-feminist-media.
METANOIA: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism: Curator with
What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. Supported by the ONE Institute, LA.
* The Center, NY, March-May 2019.
* The ONE Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, January-April 2020.
* Metanoia Online: https://www.onearchives.org/metanoia-online, March 2021.
COMPULSIVE PRACTICE: Visual AIDS Video Program, Day (With) Out Art, 2016.
Co-curated with Jean Carlomusto and Hugh Ryan: https://www.visualaids.org/projects/detail/compulsive-practice
2021