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Faculty
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Joseph Jenkins
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Education
- email: j.jenkins@uci.edu
- phone: 949.824.9827
- office: Berkeley Place 2901
- http://www.gse.uci.edu/jjenkins
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Biography
Joseph Jenkins wrote his dissertation in comparative literature at UCLA on inheritance law. He analyzed intergenerational property movement in interplay with cultural transmission more generally, reading such authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, and François Mauriac, with the critical ideas of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Giorgio Agamben. His more recent work centers on theological election and its secular counterparts at various historical moments, including 16th-century Europe. He is editor, along with Sigrid Weigel (Director of ZFL, Berlin), of a special issue of the Cardozo Law School journal Law and Literature, to appear in summer 2008, entitled “What Should Inheritance Law Be?”
Professor Jenkins is also involved with research on language arts pedagogy for minority students. He directs a high school writing and performance project called “Theater of Translation.” The project brings groups of UCI undergraduates to primarily Latino high school drama courses, with the mandate to write and perform together pieces that involve collisions of cultures (translation gaps), while also staging related Shakespeare scenes translated into Spanish by the company as a group. The aim is to motivate as well as empower these high school students’ language-arts development, while at the same time raising their college aspirations.
Research Interests
Law and Literature; Inheritance Law and Cultural Transmission; Critical Theory; Political Theology; Translation, Theater, and Language Arts Pedagogy
Selected Publications
Edited Volume Contract. Commissioned as lead Editor of a Special Issue of the
Cardozo Law School/ UC Press journal Law and Literature, to appear in
Summer 2008. The Issue is entitled “What Should Inheritance Law Be?”
Sigrid Weigel, Director of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung,
Berlin, is second Editor. Alain Badiou, Calum Carmichael, Kenneth
Reinhard, and Thomas Carlson, among others, have contributed draft pieces for
the Issue.
“Somewhere in Time: A Response to Zizek, Santner, and Reinhard’s The Neighbor,”
article accepted for publication, as submitted with my Summer 2008 Special Issue
proposal, by Law and Literature.
“Alain Badiou and Joseph Jenkins: A Discussion Concerning Inheritance Law Reform,”
accepted for publication, as submitted with my Summer 2008 Special Issue
proposal, by Law and Literature.
“Dead Hand Rising: Dialectics Beyond Last Wills in The Merchant of Venice and
The Tempest,” article submitted for consideration by Law, Culture and the
Humanities (revise and resubmit response received; revised piece submitted.)
“Critique of Will: Inheritance Directions Through Milton’s ‘God,’ the ‘Truth Event’
in Paul, and Spinoza’s ‘Real Causality,’” article submitted for consideration by
Diacritics.
“Heavy Law/ Light Law: Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Bork,
Duncan Kennedy,” in Law and Literature, U.C. Press, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, 2005.
“Detour About The Viper’s Nest Through Hegel, Adorno, and Mann’s Dr. Faustus:
Temporal Views of Subject/Object Convergences,” in Studies in Law, Politics,
and Society, Vol. 33, 2004.
“Inheritance Law as Constellation in Lieu of Redress: A Detour Through Exceptional
Terrain,” in Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 24: 3, 2003.
Ships of Land and Sea (translation of book, Navi di Terra e di Mare, by Prof. Luigi
Ballerini, UCLA Dept. of Italian; art works by Marco Gastini, Torino, Italy).
Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna, 1999.
“Monologue in Two Voices” (translation of poem, “Monologo in due voci,” by Luigi
Ballerini), in Rhizome, Los Angeles, 1999.
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