Barbara
J. Jago is an assistant professor of Communication
Arts at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester
where she teaches courses and conducts research in
relational communication, with an emphasis on identity
and emotion.
After receiving her Ph.D. in communication
at the University of South Florida, Barbara joined
the UNH Manchester faculty in 1998. In 2004, she was
honored with the UNH
Teaching Excellence Award.
The goal of Dr. Jago’s teaching
and scholarship is to understand how human beings
make sense of our selves and our relationships through
storytelling, and how we can use that understanding
to improve our individual and collective lives.
From this narrative perspective,
the “self” evolves as a collection of multiple and
often contradictory stories through the process of
conversation in a variety of relational and cultural
contexts. In this way, as M.C. Escher illustrates
in “Bond of Love,” human identity is a fundamentally
communicative, social, and political endeavor.
M.C. Escher
"Bond of Love" 1956
