Jerónimo Arellano

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture

Departments/Programs

Comparative Humanities
Comparative Literature
English
Latin American and Latino Studies
Romance Studies

Degrees

Stanford University, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, M.Phil.
Macalester College, B.A.

Expertise

20th- & 21st-Century Latin American Literature; Colonial Latin America; Screenwriting; Comparative Media

Profile

I work on the relationship between literary history and the history of emotions, and on Latin American screenwriting and comparative media studies. My first book, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America (2015), connects the rise and eclipse of magical realist fiction to major changes in the function and value of forms of emotional intensity. I've also edited a special issue of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, "Comparative Media Studies in Latin America" (2016), on new approaches to intermediality and transitional media in Latin Americanist critical thought. I'm currently working on a book on the theory and history of the practice of screenwriting in Latin America, and on a second project on affective creativity in contemporary fiction.

Courses Taught

COML	164b	Reading Screenplays
HISP	111b	Introduction to Latin American Literature and Culture
HISP	152b	Monsters and Creatures in Latin American and Latinx Culture
HISP	167b	Twice-Told Tales: Colonial Encounters and Postcolonial Fiction in the Americas
HISP	175b	Millennial Latin American Fiction and Graphic Novels
HISP	182a	Narco Cultures in Latin America and the United States
HISP	198a	Experiential Research Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies

Awards and Honors

Mandel Center for the Humanities Faculty Grant (2016)

Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Wellesley College (2016 - 2017)

Gates Scholarship, University of Cambridge, U.K. (2005)

Scholarship

Arellano, Jerónimo. ""Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas"." LARR 53. 3 (2018). (forthcoming)

Arellano, Jerónimo. ""An Unsentimental Education: Affective Creativity in McOndo and Beyond"." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 95. 1 (2018): 93-111.

Arellano, Jerónimo, ed. Comparative Media Studies in Latin America. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 50.2 2016.

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Gabriel García Márquez's Scriptwriting Workshop: Screenwriting Pedagogy and Collective Screenwriting in Latin America." Journal of Screenwriting 7. 2 (2016): 191-205.

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Introduction: Comparative Media Studies in Latin America." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 50. 2 (2016): 281-291.

Arellano, Jerónimo. "The Screenplay in the Archive: Screenwriting, New Cinemas, and the Latin American "Boom"." Revista Hispánica Moderna 69. 2 (2016): 113-132.

Arellano, Jerónimo. Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2015.

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Writing on the Desert: Latin American Narrative and the Materiality of Media Forms." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46. 3 (2012): 405-425.

Arellano, Jerónimo. "From the Space of the Wunderkammer to Macondo’s Wonder Rooms. The Collection of Marvels in Cien años de soledad." Hispanic Review 78. 3 (2010): 369-386..

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Minor Affects and New Realisms in Latin America." Journal of Latin American and Iberian Studies 16. 2/3 (2010): 91-106.