Jacqueline Jean Barrios

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• Barrios, J., Kornstein, H., McAllister, K., & Ruggill, J. (2024). Strategic legibility: Making collective sense of publicly engaged humanities scholarship. In The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781003248125-4
• Barrios, J. J. (2023). A pedagogy of beauty: Caliban in the desert. In Playing Shakespeare's Beautiful People. Peter Lang AG.
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  When called to write about Shakespeares beautiful characters, this immigrant educator and scholar, hailing from tropical isles, is inexorably drawn to the ugliness of Caliban. This chapter starts with this personal resonance to explore Caliban's complicated beauty; a beauty, this chapter will establish, is discernible in his loving attachment to place. This chapter proposes that what Caliban (and Shakespeare via Caliban) might teach readers is that beauty does not always inhere in persons, but in places-and more specifically-to a close attachment to one's environment. In this sense, the logics of colonial racism that underwrite his representation might be engaged, even challenged. The chapter will turn to two examples where this has been foregrounded- the first in a dance theatrical adaptation of The Tempest by CONTRA-TIEMPO, an L.A.-based urban-Latin dance company, "Agua Furiosa," whose depiction of Caliban foregrounds participatory contributions from community choreographic labs around Los Angeles (in which the writer and her students took part), and, in a more generalized way, in the writer's imagined pedagogical collaboration with Caliban-in her position as a displaced islander-immigrant teacher of European canonical texts, with a career-long practice of embedding this literature in the specificities and beauties of the places its readers call "home.".
• Barrios, J. J. (2018). Push the Envelope: An Alternative to Testing and the Teaching of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts. In Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/9783319904337_9

Journals/Publications

• Barrios, J. J., Deng, W., & Tin, C. C. (2025). Converging Place: Urban Humanities and the Asian Century. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 11(Issue 2). doi:10.1353/vrg.2025.a967614
• Kornstein, H., & Barrios, J. (2024). Querying Public Scholarship: An Unfinished List of Questions toward More Meaningful University–Community Partnerships. Public Humanities, 1.
• Barrios, J. (2023). Novel Wayfinding: LitLabs and the Activism of Place. Victorian Literature and Culture, 51(4). doi:10.1017/s1060150323000724
• Crisman, J. J., & Barrios, J. (2023). Who Is the We in Diaspora? Liner Notes from the Future. Amerasia Journal, 49(1-2), 128-141. doi:10.1080/00447471.2024.2313776
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  “Who Is the We in Diaspora?” is episode 12, season two of Digital Salon, an experimental podcast begun at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by coauthor Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, the “DJ,” it meditates on the Atlanta shootings of six Asian spa workers on March 16 2021. The transcript of this episode is presented anew, paired with “liner notes” that are a collaboration between the DJ and his “critical listener,” Jacqueline Barrios, coauthor of this piece and co-producer of Digital Salon, through textual “accompaniments” on the episode and its afterlife to stage the work’s claim to its own futurity.
• Barrios, J., & Wong, K. (2020). City analog: scavenging sonic archives and urban pedagogy. Review of Communication, 20(4). doi:10.1080/15358593.2020.1829687
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  In this essay, we describe a pedagogy for teaching and studying literature and cities through the embodiment of an urban sound scavenger. Extending Walter Benjamin’s figure of the ragpicker to poetically assemble disparate urban imaginaries, we explore how two linked teaching projects set in Los Angeles, CA, demonstrate listening bodies coconstituting both literary texts and urban environments.