Jackie Martinez

Professor,

CISA - School of Applied Sciences and Arts

AZCNTR Ste 380 455 N. 3rd Street Phoenix, AZ 85004
Mail code: 0320

Campus: Dtphx
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Long Bio

Jackie Martinez (she/he/they) is Professor of Communication in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Dr. Martinez’ professional life is dedicated to the study of the conditions of freedom and oppression as they are both sustained and usurped within the immediacy of our embodied experience across multiple domains of human communication and as situated within specific social, cultural, and historical structures. Dr. Martinez studies culture as it manifests in communicative experience with particular interest in how intercultural, intergroup, and interpersonal relations structure possibilities for human expression and perception within contexts of power. Dr. Martinez is the author of Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis (Roman and LIttlefield, 2000), Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience (Lexington, 2011),and co-author with Barbara Klein and Stephen Hart of New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness (Routledge, 2021). Dr. Martinez is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and President of the Board of Directors of a community-based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to teaching traditional Japanese Karate-Dō as an endeavor of life-long learning and spiritual uplift.

Education

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 1992

Department of Speech Communication Specialization in Philosophy of Communication

M.S. Southern Illinois University, 1988 Department of Speech Communication

B.A. California State University, Northridge, 1986 Major in Speech Communication

A.A. Los Angeles Pierce College, 1984 General Education

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Jacqueline (Jackie) Martinez studies communication as it mediates the relationships among personal experience, social practices, and cultural histories. Her work is informed theoretically by U.S. American phenomenology and communication theory (semiotics) as they have developed in relation to European philosophy since the late 19th century. In an applied sense, she studies embodiment as that which enables the actualization of meaning in the immediate and concrete experiences of persons located in particular times and places. Of specific interest are issues related to racial, ethnic, class, and sexual identifications with contexts of cultural domination. She is an affiliate faculty member with Women and Gender Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, and Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU.

Graduate Faculty in Communication research areas: interdisciplinary phenomenology & culture and communication

Publications

Klein, Barbara; Hart, Stephen A.; Martinez, Jacqueline M. (2021). New Understandings of Twin Relationships: From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness. New York: Routledge.
Martinez, Jacqueline M. Cassirer’s “Violent Inner Tensions of Culture”: A Cultural Phenomenology of Ethics, Freedom and the Mythology of Peace." The American Journal of Semiotics (2018).
Martinez, Jacqueline M. "Decolonial Phenomenological Practic: Communicology Across the Cultural and Political Borders of the North-South, East-West Divides. In, Isaac E. Catt, Igor E. Klyukanov, and Andrew R. Smith (Eds). Philosophical Expeditions in Communicology: Essays for Richard L. Lanigan. Peter Lang. (2018)
Martinez, Jacqueline M. “Cultural Essentialism and Neo-Essentialism.” Kim, Young Yun (Ed), The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, 2017. [4,000 word entry]
Martinez, Jacqueine M. (2016). “Communicative Sexualities: Sexual Perception, Sexual Expression and Judgment.” In Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes (Eds.) Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics. New York: Routledge (2016)
Martinez, Jacqueline M. (2015). “Forward: Human Contingency and Freedom: A Response to ‘Queer Praxis.’” In Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim (Eds.) Queer Praxis: Questions for LGBTQ Worldmaking, pp. ix-xii. New York: Peter Lang.
Martinez, Jacqueline M. (2014). “Culture, Communication, and Latina Feminist Philosophy: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Culture.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter), pp. 221-236.
Jacqueline M. Martinez. Interdisciplinary Phenomenology and the Study of Gender and Ethnicity. Schutzian Research (2011).
Jacqueline M. Martinez. Lewis Gordon's Contribution to the Study of Communication: Beyond disciplinary Decadence. Atlantic Journal of Communication (2011).
Jacqueline M. Martinez. Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience. (2011).
Jacqueline Martinez. Semiotic Phenomenology and Intercultural Communication Scholarship: Meeting the Challenge of Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Difference. Western Journal of Communication (2006).
Review of: Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture (2005).
Jacqueline Martinez. Female Bodies Enacting Masculine Codes: Weight Room Semiotics. The American Journal of Semiotics (2003).
Jacqueline Martinez. On the Possibility of the Latino Postcolonial Intellectual. Nepantla: Views from South (2003).
Jacqueline Martinez. Racisms, Heterosexisms, Identities: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self Understanding. Journal of Homosexuality (2003).
Martinez, Jacqueline M. Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis. (2000).
Smith, Andrew R. and Martinez, Jacqueline M. (1995). “Signifying Harassment: Communication, Ambiguity and Power.” Human Studies, vol. 18: 63-87. DOI: https://www- jstor-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/stable/20011072

Research Activity

Currently working on a co-authored book with Lisa M. Anderson entitled Creolizing Phenomenology: Black and Latina, Queer and Trans Creolizations. A central aim of this book is to demonstrate how Black and Latina feminist, queer, trans, diasporic theorizing performs creolization. This book treats creolization as a humanizing theoretical praxis that extends to the lived world of human beings communicating. It demonstrates how the precarious relationship between many Black, Latina, queer and trans theorists, and established academic traditions themselves, creates the conditions for creolizations that can counter the exclusions that sustain those traditions. The deployment of intersectional and communicological work pushes against the separation of theorization from the person theorizing by showing how our human situatedness within social and communicative worlds provides the very terrain across which an interrogative of the terms and conditions through which the formulations of specific ideas become possible. Black, Latina, queer and trans theorists cross this terrain often in very different ways from mainstream theorists.

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis
COM 207	Intro to Communication Inquiry
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
MLS 590	Reading and Conference
MLS 590	Reading and Conference

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
COM 464	Communicative Sexualities
MLS 510	Communicating Cmplx Cultrl Env
MLS 510	Communicating Cmplx Cultrl Env

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
PPE 240	Physical Activity
COM 100	Intro to Human Communication
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
WST 690	Reading and Conference
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis
PPE 240	Physical Activity

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
PPE 240	Physical Activity
COM 464	Communicative Sexualities
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
PPE 240	Physical Activity
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
WST 691	Seminar

2020 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
WST 690	Reading and Conference
COM 492	Honors Directed Study
COM 493	Honors Thesis
PPE 240	Physical Activity

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
COM 316	Gender and Communication
COM 364	Cultural Communicology
COM 364	Cultural Communicology

Presentations

Martinez, Jacqueline. Phenomenologies of Cultural Violence: Interrogating Philosophical and Scientific Prejudices. Caribbean Philosophy Association's Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (Aug 2006).
Martinez, Jacqueline. A Response to Peregrinajes by Maria Lugones. Radical Philosophy Biannual Conference (Nov 2005).
Anderson, Lisa, Martinez, Jacqueline. Racial and Sexual Embodiment. Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, Temple University (Mar 2005).
Martinez, Jacqueline, Anderson, Lisa. Gender Roles, Race, and Ethnicity: Towards a Phenomenology of Butch/Femme and Lesbians of Color. Semiotic Society of America Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas (Oct 2002).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Rhetoric, Semiotics, and Racist Exclusions: A Phenomenology of Transforming Racisms. International Communicology Institute's Summer Seminar, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada (Jul 2002).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Embodied Prejudice: A Critical Phenomenology of Culture, Communication, and Consciousness. National Communication Association Annual Meeting (Nov 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Inviting Dialogues and Connections Among Chicanas: Jacqueline Martinez's Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity. National Communication Association's Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia (Nov 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. La Conciencia de la Mestiza: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self Understanding. National Communication Association's Annual Conference (Nov 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Phenomenology as a Theoretical and Applied approach to Communication Research. Professor Clark Olsen's COM 501: Research Methods in Communication. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (Oct 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. The Challenge of Diversity. Arizona School of Health Sciences in conjunction with their Founder's Day events (Oct 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Current Research Issues in Semiotic Phenomenology. Professor Kristin Valentine's COM 404: Research Apprenticeship course. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (Apr 2001).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Inter-Ethnic Communication: Insights From Bateson. National Communication Association's Annual Conference (Nov 2000).
Martinez, Jacqueline. Chicana y Chicana: On Mexican Cultural Heritage. Professor Bliss Little's COM 394: Culture and Communication in World Music" course

Service

Personnel Committee Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Chair (2006 - Present)
Hugh Sown School of Human Communication, Course Coordinator (2004 - Present)
Western Journal of Communication, Ad Hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2001 - Present)
HDSHC PhD Selection Committee, Member (2007 - 2008)
National Communication Association, Non-Serial Publications Program. Gust Yep, Series Editor (2006 - 2008)
School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Graduate Committee (2007 - 2008)
National Communication Associate Non-Serial Publications, Member of Editorial Board (2006 - 2008)
PhD Selection Committee, HDSHC, member of committee (2007 - 2008)
Communication Theory, Manuscript reviewer (2004 - 2006)
Personnel Committee Hugh Downs School, Member (2004 - 2006)
Western Journal of Communication, Manuscript reviewer (2005 - 2006)
HDS Personnel Committee, Member (2004 - 2006)
Wadsworth Press, Reviewer (2006 - 2006)
The American Journal of Semiotics, Associate Editor (1998 - 2005)
University Senate, CLAS Senate, Senator (2005 - 2005)
Chicano Faculty and Staff Association, Faculty Representative, member of Executive Committee (2003 - 2004)
College of Public Programs, Senator-at-Large (2003 - 2004)
Journal of Homosexualty, Ad Hoc Manuscript Reviewer (2003 - 2004)
International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association, Vice Chair (2003 - 2004)
The American Journal of Semiotics, Reviewer (2003 - 2003)
International and Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association, Vice Chair Elect (2002 - 2003)
Personnel Committee, Member (2001 - 2003)
Southwest Borderlands Initiative, Representative from the Hugh Downs School (2000 - 2002)
Commission on Semiotics and Communication, National Communication Association, Secretary (2001 - 2001)
Western Journal of Communication, Reviewer (2001 - 2001)
Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity, HDSHC, Member (2000 - 2001)
Commission on Semiotics and Communication, National Communication Association, Chair (1999 - 2000)

Expertise Areas

Communication and Philosophy

Feminist and Queer Theory

Intercultural Communication

Race and Ethnicity