Jacqueline Hidalgo, PhD

New Testament, Scriptures, Apocalypticism, Utopianism, Latinx Religions, Religion and Ecology, Migration and Religion

Monographs

Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies, in Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 3, no. 4 (2020): 1-98.

Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement. Palgrave Macmillan (2016).

Edited Collections

“Rethinking the Role of Religion in Chicanx and Latinx Studies,” ed. with Robert Chao Romero and David Flores. Dossier for Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 47, no. 1 (2022).

Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration, ed. with Efraín Agosto. Palgrave Macmillan (2018).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Within the Veil and Between the Masks: Reflections on Unveilings and Unmaskings after the Apocalypse," in Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush, 69-76. Lexington/Fortress (2023).

“The Bible and Latinxs,” in Bloomsbury Religion in North America, ed. Lloyd Barba, Theology and Religion Online, Bloomsbury (2022) http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350898806.006.

“Revelation: Determination Beyond Hope.” In Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament, ed. Osvaldo D. Vena and Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz, 433-450. Lexington/Fortress (2022).

“‘So Many of Our Destinies Are Tied Beyond Our Understanding:’ Rethinking Religious Hybridity in Latinx/o/a Contexts.” Missiology: An International Review 50, 1 (2022):17-26.

“Defying the Meaning Line: Reading Brian Blount’s Presidential Address alongside Lxs Atravesadxs.” The Bible & Critical Theory 17, no. 1 (2021): 36-45.

“Biblical Interpretation and/as Queer Temporalities: A Response,” Biblical Interpretation 28 (2020): 516-531.

“Scripturalizing the Pandemic,” Journal of Biblical Literature 139, no. 3 (2020): 625-634.

“Latina Diversity and Difference in Biblical Studies.” In Women and the Society of Biblical Literature, ed. Nicole L. Tilford, 175-191. Society of Biblical Literature (2019).

“La Lucha for Home and La Lucha as Home: Latinx/a/o Theologies and Ecologies,” Journal of Hispanic/Latinoax Theology 21, no. 1 (2019): 1-21, available at https://repository.usfca.edu/jhlt/vol13/iss1/1/.

“The Roman Empire in the Book of Revelation.” In The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah, available through Oxford Handbooks Online of Oxford University Press (2019/2022): https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190888459.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190888459-e-33.

“The Bible and Global-Systemic Criticism in the Age of ‘Fake News,’” Contribution to Roundtable on “Fake News vs. Good News: Texts, Tweets, and Technology,” Perspectivas 16 (2019): 105-110. (http://perspectivasonline.com/downloads/roundtable-essay-1-the-bible-and-global-systemic-criticism-in-the-age-of-fake-news/).

“The Chicano Student Movement as Religious and The Spiritual Plan of Aztlán as Scriptural and Utopian.” In Religion and Power, ed. Jione Havea, 105-122. Lexington Books/Fortress Academics (2019).

With Efraín Agosto, “Introduction: Reading the Bible and Latinx Migrations/the Bible as Text(s) of Migration.” In Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration, ed. Hidalgo and Agosto, 1-19. Palgrave Macmillan (2018).

“The Bible as Homing Device Among Cubans at Claremont’s Calvary Chapel.” In Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration, ed. Hidalgo and Agosto, 21-42. Palgrave Macmillan (2018).

“Place Matters, Or Utopian Orientations and Latina Feminist Biblical Studies,” Response to “Roundtable on Revelation in Aztlán,” Perspectivas 15 (2018): 98-106. (http://perspectivasonline.com/downloads/response-essay-place-matters-or-utopian-orientations-and-latina-feminist-biblical-studies/).

“No Future for Biblical Studies? Or, Still Living with a Contingent Apocalypse as Biblical Interpretation Turns 25.” In Present and Future of Biblical Studies: Celebrating 25 Years of Brill’s Biblical Interpretation, ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew, 133-155. Brill (2018).

“‘Our Book of Revelation…Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us from It’: Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe L. Moraga’s The Last Generation.” In Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies, ed. Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal, and Stephen D. Moore, 113-132. Fordham University Press (2018).

“California Dreams or Colonial Nightmares? St. Serra, the Missions, and the Borderlands of Memory,” New Theology Review 30, no. 1 (2017): 11-23. (http://newtheologyreview.org/index.php/ntr/article/view/1391).

“Adelante in Difference: Latinxs in the Age of Trump,” Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump, ed. Miguel A. De La Torre, 200-207. Orbis Books (2017).

“Competing Land Claims and Conflicting Scriptures: Chemehuevi and Chicano Sacred Sites in Blythe, CA.” In Refractions of the Scriptural: Critical Orientations as Transgression, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush, 107-120. Routledge (2016).

“Reading from No Place: Towards a Hybrid and Ambivalent Study of Scriptures.” In Latino/a Biblical Hermeneutics: Problematic, Objectives, Strategies, ed. Fernando F. Segovia and Francisco Lozada, 165-186. Semeia Studies. Society of Biblical Literature Press (2014).

“Struggling with Mindsets of Domination.” In Feminist Biblical Studies in the 20^th Century, ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Vol. 20 of The Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. 199-215. Society of Biblical Literature Press (2014).

“The Politics of Reading: U.S. Latinas, Biblical Studies, and ‘Retrofitted Memory’ in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue.” The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 29, no. 2 (2013): 120-131.

“Latinos/as and Catholic-Jewish Relations in the Americas.” In Toward the Future: Essays on Catholic-Jewish Relations in Memory of Rabbi Leon Klenicki, ed. Celia Deutsch, Eugene Fisher, and James Rudin, 198-211. Paulist Press (2013).

“Scripting Latinidad: (Re)Defining Textual Selves and Worlds in the Age of MySpace.” The Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (February 2009) (http://www.latinotheology.org/).

Book Reviews

Editor and “Introduction” to “Discussion on Jean-Pierre Ruiz’s Revelation in the Vernacular (2021),” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 25, no. 1, article 7 (2023): 63-66. https://repository.usfca.edu/jhlt/vol25/iss1/7.

“An Amasamiento: Reflecting on Peter Mena’s Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland,” Perspectivas 18 (2021): 81-84 (https://perspectivasonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/P-E-R-S-P-E-C-T-I-V-A-S_2021.pdf).

Review of Toward a Latino/a Biblical Interpretation, by Francisco Lozada, Jr. Review of Biblical Literature (November 2018) (https://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/11907_13284.pdf).

With C. Travis Webb, Gerald West, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, and Volney Gay, “Books in Conversation,” The Abeng: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Criticism 1, no. 1 (2017): 41-62.

Review of The Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament, ed. Margaret Aymer, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, and David A. Sánchez. Review of Biblical Literature (August 2017) (https://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/10189_11303.pdf).

Review of Borderline Exegesis, by Leif E. Vaage. Review of Biblical Literature (July 2016) (https://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/9764_10780.pdf).

Review of Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible: The Next Step, ed. Roland Boer. Catholic Biblical Quarterly 77, no. 1 (January 2015): 194-196.

Review of Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation, by David A. deSilva. Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches 18, no. 4-5 (2010): 440-442.

Review of From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths, by David A. Sánchez. The Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (May 2010) (http://www.latinotheology.org/).

Selected Public Scholarship, Blog Posts, and Interviews

“What Is an Apocalypse?” Bible Odyssey, June 2023, https://www.bibleodyssey.org/passages/related-articles/what-is-an-apocalypse/.

“‘Our Book of Revelation’: Apocalypse as Temporal Fugue in US Latina Literature,” Political Theology Network, January 26, 2023, https://politicaltheology.com/our-book-of-revelation-apocalypse-as-temporal-fugue-in-us-latina-literature/.

Panelist, “Chisme Symposium: Methodology,” University of Dayton, uploaded October 3, 2022, https://youtu.be/-K1U2P5s6u0.

“Migration and Politics,” interviewed on Scientific Sense, March 16, 2022, https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/episodes/Prof--Jacqueline-M--Hidalgo-of-Williams-College-on-Religion--Migration-and-Politics-e1fqqrg.

“Teaching as Coalition Building,” interviewed on the Wabash Center’s Dialogue on Teaching Series, December 9, 2021, https://www.buzzsprout.com/829600/9656540-episode-150-teaching-as-coalition-building-jacqueline-hidalgo.

“HTI and the Bible: Making Space for Latina/o/x Contributions to Biblical Scholarship,” Perspectivas: HTI 25^th Anniversary Issue (2021): https://perspectivasonline.com/downloads/hti-and-the-bible-making-space-for-latina-o-x-contributions-to-biblical-scholarship/. 

“The Power of Little Cockroaches Insisting on Worlds Otherwise,” in “Short Meditations on José Esteban Muñoz’s Sense of Brown” symposium, Political Theology Network, September 18, 2021, https://politicaltheology.com/the-power-of-little-cockroaches-insisting-on-worlds-otherwise/.

“Letter 45,” American Values, Religious Voices, March 5, 2021, https://www.valuesandvoices.com/letters-2021/letter-45/.

“Episode 6, Apocalyptic Thinking During the Pandemic (Part 1),” interviewed on Podcast of the Plague Year, March 4, 2021, https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HtAQAk4R9f2phwfiTTC8V.

“Occupying Whiteness: A Reflection in 2020,” in “The Politics of Scripture” series, Political Theology Network, November 19, 2020, https://politicaltheology.com/occupying-whiteness-a-reflection-in-2020/.

“It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junípero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History,” Religion Dispatches, July 7, 2020, https://religiondispatches.org/its-the-catholic-bishops-not-those-who-toppled-junipero-serra-statues-who-have-failed-the-test-of-history/.

“Unquoting the Markets,” Open Plaza, March 2020, https://www.htiopenplaza.org/content/unquoting-the-markets.

“A Misfit’s Take on Academic Survival,” Logia series at Blogos: The Official Blog of the Logos Institute, March 2020, http://blogos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/03/31/logia-for-march-2020-a-misfits-take-on-academic-survival-by-jacqueline-m-hidalgo/.

“The Open Plaza and the Legacies of ‘El Plan de Santa Bárbara’ at Age 50,” Open Plaza, November 2019, https://www.htiopenplaza.org/content/open-plaza-and-el-plan-de-santa-barbara.

with Kay Higuera Smith, “Hermeneutics in the Latinx Context,” a 3-part podcast conversation, Open Plaza, December 2019, https://www.htiopenplaza.org/content/hermeneutics-in-the-latinx-context-episode-1.

“The Scriptures of Lydia Lopez.” In Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, ed. Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales, 347-348. University of Arizona Press (2019).

“‘Assume You Don’t Belong’: A Mindset for Academic Survival,” The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 33, no. 2 (2019): 85-87.

“Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland,” Contending Modernities, April 11, 2019, http://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/beyond-aztlan/.

“Why MEChA Burned Out After 50 Years,” in the Remezcla roundtable on “What Is the Future of the Term Chicano?“, April 11, 2019, https://remezcla.com/features/culture/what-is-the-future-of-the-term-chicano/.

“Letter 34,” American Values, Religious Voices, February 22, 2017, http://www.valuesandvoices.com/letter34/.

With Eric D. Barreto, “The Biblical Call to Welcome the Stranger,” Odyssey Impact, February 14, 2017, https://youtu.be/GnxqPkSyXtU.

“Rethinking Religious Rhetorics, Gendercide, and HB2 after Orlando,” @theTable: Transcending Transphobia, Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, August 29, 2016, http://www.fsrinc.org/rethinking-religious-rhetorics/.

“Why Serra Should Not Be a Saint” and “Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reasons to Lament His Canonization,” Religion Dispatches, February 3 and September 24, 2015, http://religiondispatches.org/why-serra-should-not-be-a-saint/ and http://religiondispatches.org/serras-actions-arent-the-only-reason-to-lament-his-canonization/.

“What Is Postcolonial Theory?”, “Postcolonial Readings of Revelation,” and “Postcolonial Critiques,” Bible Odyssey, https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/tools/video-gallery/w/what-is-postcolonial-theory; https://www.bibleodyssey.org/tools/video-gallery/p/postcolonial-readings-of-revelation; https://www.bibleodyssey.org/tools/video-gallery/p/postcolonial-critiques. 

In the News:

“The Religious Roots of Today’s Apocalypse,” interviewed on KCRW’s Life Examined, May 1, 2021, https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/end-of-time-apocalypse-prepping/book-of-revelations-religion-apocalypse.

Interviewed for "The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times" by Elizabeth Dias, The New York Times, April 2, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-apocalypse-religion.html. 

New Testament, Scriptures, Apocalypticism, Utopianism, Latinx Religions, Migration and Religion, Race and Religion, Gender and Religion, Sexuality and Religion