Faculty Profiles

Javiera Barrientos is a book historian and book binder interested in the intersections between material cultures, literary genres and gender, particularly but not restricted to the Global Early Modern period. She earned her BA in Universidad Católica de Chile, her MA in Universidad de Chile and is currently a doctoral student of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, working in the Rutgers Book Initiative. She has taught courses on histories of the book, histories of reading and Latin American colonial literatures inside and outside teaching institutions and collaborates with independent publishing houses and artists in the creation of handmade books. She has worked as a bibliographical investigator in Archivo Central Andrés Bello and the National Conservation and Restoration Center of Chile. She is the co-founder of the Center for the Studies of Pretty and Useless Things (CECLI), a Chilean-Mexican collective dedicated to interdisciplinary research about objects and material culture. She also works as a bookbinder and bookbinding instructor in her own private workshop, Notas de Arte.