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-Manchester
Teaching Excellence award.
The goal of Dr. Jago’s teaching
and scholarship is to understand how we 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 a 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
