Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Director
Associate Professor
Antiracist everything, documentary and fiction film, television, social media, war media, sports media, Black media, LGBTQ+ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality.
Cynthia Fuchs is the co-founder and Interim Director of the Film and Video Studies Program. interim Director of Film at Mason (CVPA) and Associate Professor. She serves on the Executive Committees for African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Women and Gender Studies (WGST). She is affiliated with Sport and American Culture.
She is the creator and curator of the Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason. See VFS Linktree.
In 2020, Professor Fuchs was awarded the United Bank Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion, presented to a faculty member who has made extraordinary contributions to advancing diversity and inclusion within the Mason community and beyond. Cynthia Fuchs has worked in the areas of antiracism and inclusion for decades, and continues to do so as a member of CVPA's Antiracist and Inclusive Excellence Advisory Team and Kritikos Antiracist Reading Group Organizing Committee, as well as the Stearns Center ARIE Curriculum and Pedagogy Working Group.
Professor Fuchs has written reviews and essays, and served as an editor for the international cultural studies magazine, PopMatters. She has written reviews for many venues, including the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Philadelphia Citypaper, Screenit.com, NPR, and Common Sense Media. She is a frequent jurist for the Gotham Independent Film Awards. She has spoken at AFI Docs, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC's Cinema Club, the Rosebud Independent Film Festival, and the Goethe-Institut in DC.
Selected Publications
Iraq War Cultures. Edited by Cynthia Fuchs and Joe Lockard, Peter Lang Publishers 2011.
Spike Lee: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers). Edited by Cynthia Fuchs. University Press of Mississippi 2002.
Between the Sheets, in the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (Visible Evidence). Edited by Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs. University Of Minnesota Press 1997.
"'A Few Brief Moments': Truth and Image in Sports Documentaries." Gender and Genre in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays. Edited by Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera. Scarecrow Press 2012.
Expanded Publication List
Courses Taught
FAVS 304: Ways of Thinking, FAVS 225: Intro to World Cinema; FAVS 300: Global Horror; plus these courses: Intro to Documentary; TV+Twitter; Introduction to Film; War Documentaries; Sports as Media; Sports-race-media; Crisis Media; Race, Politics, Documentary; Black popular cultures; Queer cinema; Girls on Film.
Education
- BA, University of Connecticut
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania