Jerónimo Arellano

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture

Departments/Programs

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

Degrees

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

Expertise

20th- & 21st-Century Latin American Literature; Latin American and Latinx Screenwriting; Comparative Media Studies

Profile

My work is concerned with two overarching questions: what is the relationship between literary history and the history of emotions?; and: what can comparative media studies, media theory, and literary criticism learn from each other?

In response to this first question, my first book and related articles work towards an affective history of form in Latin America, observing that shifts in collective emotional formations inflect and are inflected by the rise and fall of literary styles and aesthetic modalities. As a first installment of this broader project, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America (Bucknell UP, 2015) connects the emergence and eclipse of magical realist fiction in Latin America (one of the most contentious subjects in Latin American literature) to major changes in the public functions of wonder and enchantment as forms of emotional intensity, from the colonial period to the dawn of the new millennium. Challenging entrenched views of magical realism as an exotic commodity exported from Latin American to the West, this book re-links this literature to transnational cultures of emotion and to shared--yet often contradictory--desires for the re-enchantment of the world.

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, and published several articles on Latin American literature and screenwriting in an expanded field of relational media forms.

I'm currently working on a second project that extends the feedback loop between literary history and the history of emotions developed in previous work to new forms of fiction arising in Latin America in the 21st century, focusing in particular on their relation to millennial cultures of emotion.

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

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, Jerónimo. ""The Marvelous as Atmosphere: Postcritical Reading and the Re-Enchantment of the World".", 2019 (forthcoming)

Arellano, Jerónimo. "Review." Rev. of The Senses of Democracy, by Francine Masiello. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2019 (forthcoming)

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.