Biography
Adjunct Assistant Professor Joseph Jenkins joined the then Department, now School, of Education in 2006. He has since retired and has now been reappointed by the School as Research Associate. Prior to retirement, he conducted research in the School; taught wills and trusts and inheritance law and literature at the UC Irvine Law School; and taught critical theory, Shakespeare, Milton, and Freud in the UCI Department of English. Several of Professor Jenkins’ publications focus on inheritance and political theology, in their influences, both conscious and otherwise, on law, society, economics, culture and education.
Professor Jenkins brings to UC Irvine his rich background in comparative literature, law, critical theory, and theater-based language arts pedagogy. He directs a long-standing outreach and research project, using a self-designed pedagogy, which highlights noteworthy competencies of minoritized students. Professor Jenkins has founded here, and directed in five different academic years, a high-school writing and performance project called “Theater of Translation” (TOT). TOT brings groups of UCI students to neighboring Title I high schools, where there are many Latinx students enrolled. Writing and performance companies take form, which draw upon the high-schoolers’ own unique lives, at the crossroads of different languages and cultural expectations. TOT provides an engaging experience, where high-schoolers are encouraged to write together as a company, in English, Spanish and other languages, according to self-determined aims. These students are introduced to the challenges and joys (satisfactions most often delayed, but experienced intensely) of writing what they want to write (mentored by close-in-age undergrads) and then performing scripts worked out as a group, before a live audience.
Professor Jenkins received his Bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degrees from UC Berkeley. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature was awarded at UCLA. Professor Jenkins’ monograph, Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace in Early Modern Literature and Beyond, was published by Routledge/Ashgate in 2012 (paperback in 2016). He has also edited two special issues for the Cardozo Law School journal Law &Literature: What Should Inheritance Law Be? (20:2, 2008); and, with Paul Saint-Amour and Robert Spoo, Futures of Fair Use (2013: 25:1). He is a member of the California State Bar and has had several funded research stays with the Liebniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, in Berlin.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Joseph Jenkins joined the then Department, now School, of Education in 2006. He has since retired and has now been reappointed by the School as Research Associate. Prior to retirement, he conducted research in the School; taught wills and trusts and inheritance law and literature at the UC Irvine Law School; and taught critical theory, Shakespeare, Milton, and Freud in the UCI Department of English. Several of Professor Jenkins’ publications focus on inheritance and political theology, in their influences, both conscious and otherwise, on law, society, economics, culture and education.
Professor Jenkins brings to UC Irvine his rich background in comparative literature, law, critical theory, and theater-based language arts pedagogy. He directs a long-standing outreach and research project, using a self-designed pedagogy, which highlights noteworthy competencies of minoritized students. Professor Jenkins has founded here, and directed in five different academic years, a high-school writing and performance project called “Theater of Translation” (TOT). TOT brings groups of UCI students to neighboring Title I high schools, where there are many Latinx students enrolled. Writing and performance companies take form, which draw upon the high-schoolers’ own unique lives, at the crossroads of different languages and cultural expectations. TOT provides an engaging experience, where high-schoolers are encouraged to write together as a company, in English, Spanish and other languages, according to self-determined aims. These students are introduced to the challenges and joys (satisfactions most often delayed, but experienced intensely) of writing what they want to write (mentored by close-in-age undergrads) and then performing scripts worked out as a group, before a live audience.
Professor Jenkins received his Bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degrees from UC Berkeley. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature was awarded at UCLA. Professor Jenkins’ monograph, Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace in Early Modern Literature and Beyond, was published by Routledge/Ashgate in 2012 (paperback in 2016). He has also edited two special issues for the Cardozo Law School journal Law &Literature: What Should Inheritance Law Be? (20:2, 2008); and, with Paul Saint-Amour and Robert Spoo, Futures of Fair Use (2013: 25:1). He is a member of the California State Bar and has had several funded research stays with the Liebniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, in Berlin.
