The Self-Reflexive Praxis at the Heart of DH

Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. Author and/or editor since 1995 of scholarly books on activist media in light of AIDS (AIDS TV, Duke University Press, 1995 and AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, Duke University Press, 2020), Black lesbian and queer representation (Sisters in the Life, Duke University Press, 2018), feminism (Women of Vision, University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and digital culture (Learning from YouTube, MIT Press, 2011), Dr. Juhasz also makes videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as producing the feature fakes The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). She writes reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces about these subjects for non-academic venues like MS, Bomb, Hyperallergic, and the Brooklyn Rail. Her current work is on and about fake news and radical digital media literacy (fakenews-poetry.org).