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Alexandra Juhasz is a feminist writer and theorist of media production.

Career
As Professor of Media Studies, Juhasz teaches media production and theory at Pitzer College. Her research interests include documentary video production, women’s film, and feminist film theory. She has written a variety of articles focusing on feminist issues such as teenage sexuality, AIDS, and sex education. Her work concentrates on online feminist pedagogy, learning from Youtube, and other basic uses of digital media. Juhasz received her Ph.D. from NYU and has taught courses at multiple locations and institutions including NYU, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Pitzer College, Claremont Graduate University, and on Youtube. Her courses incorporate activist media, documentary, media archives, and feminist media.

Juhasz has produced two feature films: The Owls and The Watermelon Woman. She has also produced over a dozen educational documentaries that focus on feminist concerns ranging from teen pregnancy to AIDS. Juhasz is interested in contributing to individual and community growth via her media practices directed toward political change.

Teaching and administrative experience
Juhasz began her career at New York University in 1990 as adjunct instructor in cinema studies. From 1991 to 1994 she worked as an assistant professor (English and women's studies) at Swarthmore College. She was also an assistant professor at Pitzer College from 1995 to 2003. Juhasz has been a Professor in the Cultural Studies, Art, and English Departments at Claremont Graduate University since 2003. She has also been a Professor in Media history, theory, and production at Pitzer College since 2003. In Fall 2011, Juhasz worked at USC as Sabbatical Adjunct Professor, School of Cinematic Arts. Beginning in 2013, she accepted the Director position at the Monroe Center for Social Inquiry.

Education
Juhasz received her B.A. in American Studies and English at Amherst College in 1986. Shortly after graduating she participated in a year long artist's program sponsored by the Whitney Museum (1987-1988). Juhasz also attended New York University and earned her Doctorate "With Distinction" in Cinema Studies (1992). She was awarded "Society for Cinema Studies' First Prize" in 1993 for her Doctoral dissertation: Re-Mediating AIDS: The Politics of Community Produced Video.

Awards and grants

 * Researcher, Getty Funded Exhibit and Publication, for Pacific Standard Time:The Art of the Woman’s Building, 2009-10.
 * Fellow, NEH Summer Fellowship program, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California, 2009.
 * Alpert Award in the Arts, 2003.
 * Mellon Intercultural Learning Through Technology Grant, 2001.

Publications
Blackwell Companion to Film Studies: Documentary and Documentary Histories. Co-editor with Alisa Lebow (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Press, forthcoming 2014/16).

Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Mediamaking (1986 - 2011), ed. with Yvonne Welbon (under contract review, Duke).

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).