Novel Belonging: Making a South LA Universe

Jacqueline Barrios is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. She studies the global 19th century, literature, and the city, which she extends in interdisciplinary, socially engaged projects within the public humanities. Her current scholarship investigates London-Pacific trans-urban imaginaries—geographies of East Asian Pacific Rim entanglement with the British capital. As a member and affiliate fellow of UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative, a research program linking architecture, urban planning and humanities scholars, she co-leads DIGITAL SALON, using podcasts to explore emergent research and artistic practices for remaking and reimagining the city. Her interdisciplinary interests are expressed by embedding her scholarship within communities as founder of LitLabs, a public humanities project hub fusing visual performing arts and site-specific research with the study of literary texts,  in order to document, animate and uplift the life-worlds of communities who interpret them.

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