Alexandra Hidalgo
- Associate Professor, Crow Chair
Alexandra's Affiliations: Constellations
Alexandra Hidalgo is an Associate Professor and Crow Chair of English. She is an award-winning Venezuelan writer, filmmaker, theorist, memoirist, and editor. Her intellectual and creative work explores the challenges and immense rewards of sustaining deep-rooted relationships in our familial, friendship, and professional spheres.
She writes about relationships across time and distance on her Love in Many Genres Substack and analyzes big-hearted books, movies, and TV shows on her All the Love! YouTube channel. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two sons, where they passionately debate their favorite characters and twists in the books, movies, and shows they devour together.
Her video book Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2017) received the 2018 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. She has also edited two collections, Pixelating the Self: Digital Feminist Memoirs (Enculturation Intermezzo, 2018) and Extraordinary Filmmakers: How to Make Films Against All Odds (co-edited with Carole Dean, From the Heart Productions, 2022).
Her 2017 short documentary Teta has been the official selection at 30 film festivals in 13 countries and received 8 film festival awards. Vanishing Borders, her 2014 feature documentary, was an official selection at 11 film festivals and 7 universities and received 5 film festival awards.
Her videos and writing have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, NPR, The Criterion Collection, and Women and Hollywood. Her scholarship has been published in Kairos, Composition Studies, Enculturation, and Peitho, among others. Her 2019 video essay, “Motherhood on the Screen: An Exploration of Wounds Opened and Closed Through Home Video,” received the 2020 Kairos Best Webtext Award.
She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. She has a PhD in English from Purdue University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University.
You can learn more about her work on her website and on Substack, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Education & Training
- PhD in English from Purdue University
- MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction from Naropa University
- BA in Philosophy with minors in History, French, and Russian from Ohio University
Representative Publications
“What Connects Mothers Across Generations?” Love in Many Genres Substack. 7 May 2026.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2 Succeeds by Having Anne Hathaway & Meryl Streep Face Today's Dark Realities.” YouTube. 5 May 2026.
“The Correspondent, Virginia Evans’ Best-Selling Novel, Is a Love Letter to Deliberate Communication.” YouTube. 17 Apr. 2026.
“In S4, Rob Thomas Tried to Keep Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars Going for Years but Killed His Own Show.” YouTube. 3 Apr. 2026.
“When All in Becomes All Out.” Love in Many Genres Substack. 15 Apr. 2026.
“Sentimental Value’s Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve & Elle Fanning Express Love Through Art.” YouTube. 23 Jan. 2026.
“What The Duffer Brothers Want You to Know in Stranger Things S5: NEVER Underestimate Children.” YouTube. 2 Jan. 2026.
“The Art of Wrangling Big Projects.” Love in Many Genres Substack. 18 Nov. 2025.
“Why Unmarried Girls Are The Most Dangerous People in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.” YouTube. 25 July 2025.
“Deep Feelings and Intentional Communities: Honoring Patricia Sullivan’s Legacy.” Article conversation featuring Jenny Bay, Huiling Ding, Tarez Graban, Emily Legg, and Laurie A. Pinkert. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing place, issue 8, 2025.
“Consulting Editor to the Rescue: Seeing Storytelling Anew Through Veteran Eyes.” Revising Moves: Sharing and Narrating Revision in Action. Edited by Allison D. Carr, Christina M. LaVecchia, Laura R. Micciche, Hannah J. Rule, and Jayne E.O. Stone. UP of Colorado, 2024.
“The Mass Exodus: Why People Are Leaving Academia and What We Can Learn from Their Stories.” Article conversation featuring Sonia C. Arellano, Will Kurlinkus, and Caitlan Spronk. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing place, issue 7, 2024.
“Embodying Mentorship and Friendship: A Love Letter to Villanueva’s ‘Tradition and Change.’” 50th Anniversary Special Issue of Composition Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2022, pp. 79-83.
“A Response to Cushman, Baca, and García’s College English Introduction.” constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing place, vol. 3, Fall 2021.
Hidalgo, Alexandra, Catheryn Jennings, and Ana Milena Ribero. “Constellating Stories and Counterstories: Cultural Rhetorics Scholarship Principles.” Moderated by Kimberly Wieser. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing place, issue 4, 2021.
“Feedback As an Act of Love: How to Transform Storytelling By Listening to Others.” MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. 14 June 2021.
“How ‘Gilmore Girls’ Rescued My Relationship with My Mother.” Women and Hollywood. 13 Oct. 2020.
“Godmotherly Love.” The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. New York, NY: The Criterion Collection, 2020, pp. 115-129.
“Creating our Pasts Together: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Memoir.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018.
Hidalgo, Alexandra and Katie Grimes. “A Feminist Approach to Social Media.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 12, no. 2. 2017.
“Family Archives and the Rhetoric of Loss.” Provocations: Reconstructing the Archive. Edited by Patrick Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2016.
“Alto Precio: Love, Loss, and Rebellion in Raising Bilingual Children.” Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, vol. 6. 2016.
“Vanishing Fronteras: A Call for Documentary Filmmaking in Cultural Rhetorics (con la ayuda de Anzaldúa).” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, vol. 21, 2016.
“Race, Rhetoric, and the State Special Issue.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. Edited by Alexandra Hidalgo and Donnie Johnson Sackey, vol. 5 no. 2. Fall 2015.
