Jeronimo Arellano

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture

Departments/Programs

Comparative Humanities
Comparative Literature
English
Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Romance Studies

Degrees

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

Expertise

Latin American Literature; Latin American and Latinx Cinema and Screenwriting; Affect Theory and the History of Emotions; Media Studies

Profile

I work at the intersection between the history of aesthetics and the history of emotions, seeking to develop an emotional history of art forms. A second area of research is media studies, screen culture, and the consolidation of Latin American screenwriting as a field of creative practice. My first book, Magical Realism and the History of Emotions in Latin America (Bucknell UP, 2015), argues that magical realism is not a representation of a “magical” Latin American reality but an art form that creates bubbles of wonder within the fabric of a disenchanted world. How these bubbles of wonder were constructed, inhabited, and then came to burst is the main story this book follows. Its broader goal is to nudge critical studies away from the abstractions of affect theory, towards the exploration of localized articulations between shared emotional experiences and narrative forms that rise and fall in tandem.

I'm currently working on a book on the development of Latin American and Latinx screenwriting from the early twentieth century to the new millennium and on a second project on new moods and atmospheres in Latin American fiction.

Courses Taught

HISP	111b	Introduction to Latin American Literature and Culture
HISP	152b	Monsters and Creatures in Latin American and Latinx Culture
HISP	175b	Millennial Latin American Literature and Cinema
HISP	182a	Narco Cultures in Latin America and the United States
HISP	198a	Experiential Research Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies

Awards and Honors

Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2019 - 2020)

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, Jeronimo. ""Horror Bubbles: Andrés Caicedo's Weird Screenplays"." Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Ed. Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo, and Claus Tieber., 2022 (forthcoming)

Arellano, Jerónimo. ""The Marvelous as Atmosphere: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World"." A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klaren. Wiley-Blackwell:, 2022 (forthcoming)

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Review." Rev. of The Senses of Democracy, by Francine Masiello. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2019: 307-309.

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

Arellano, Jerónimo. ""Reading the Affects in the Colonial Americas"." LARR 53. 3 (2018): 548-550.

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

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Gabriel García Márquez's Scriptwriting Workshop." 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. "Review." Rev. of García Márquez and Ovid, by Lorna Robinson. Comparative Literature Studies 2016

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Review." Rev. of Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín, by Gabriela Polit Dueñas. Hispanic Research Journal 2016

Arellano, Jerónimo. "The Screenplay in the Archive"." 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.