Select Publications

Dr. Arellano is currently finishing two projects, a short manuscript titled Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984 (forthcoming in the Cambridge University Press Elements Series), and Life In Search of Form: 20th Century Mexican American Literature at the End of Art.

"The Borders of the Frame": Chicanx Feminism and the Problem of Representation (2020)

Silent Death Knell: Memorializing Rural New Mexico in Nasario Garcia's Poems (2020)

Screwed in 2020: The Psychology of Horror and Class Immobility in Adaptations of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (2020)

Review of Stanley Fish's The First  (Summer 2022)

"Decolonizing Mexican Americans," Decolonize X? Cluster, post45.org (2021)

Aztlan for the Middle Class: Chicano Literary Activism (2022)

Tomas Rivera Encylopedia Entry in Latino Litearture: An Encyclopedia for Students (2023)

A Hopeful Eulogy: Pablo Miguel Martinez's Poem about the Longoria Affair (2021)

Wherefore Art? Studying the Humanities at the United States Air Force Academy (Spring 2023)

“Here’s to Chicanos in the Middle Class!”: The Limits of Chicano Literary Activism,” forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature, ed. John Richard Ernest, Cambridge University Press (Spring 2024)

“Marchando al Futuro: Latino Immigrant Rights Leadership in Chicago,” Marcha: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement, eds. Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-Gonzales, University of Illinois Press (2010)