Aarón Lacayo

Aarón Lacayo, Associate Professor of Spanish & Central American Studies, holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature with a certificate in Cinema Studies and a M.A. in Spanish, both from Rutgers University. During 2018-19, he was an Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow at Gettysburg. His current book-length project, Unaccompanied Cinema: Ecologies of Violence in Contemporary Central American Film, focuses on the intersections of ecology, politics and violence in postwar Central American cinema. His essays appear in journals and book volumes such as Comparative Literature Studies, New Review of Film & Television Studies, Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context (MLA Series), Ecocinema Theory & Practice 2 and Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis. As a literary translator, he has translated fiction and poetry, including Gordon Matta-Clark’s Art Cards/Fichas de arte and Claudia Hernández’s Salvadorean novella, La han despedido the nuevo (They Have Fired Her Again).