Dr. Julia R. Brown
Areas of Expertise
Mexican literatures and visual cultures, Latin American cultural studies
About
Julia Ruth Brown (she/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literatures at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. NGO work in Intibucá, Honduras; Boaco, Nicaragua; and Guairá, Paraguay kicked off Julia's interest in the politics of race , geography, and the arts in Latin America. She completed her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writing a dissertation on geocritical asethetics and Indigenous territories in Mexican Nuevo cine of the 1970s. Julia's research has earned numerous grants, including a Fulbright-García Robles award.
She has served as Editorial Assistant and Managing Editor for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (University of California Press).
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Brown, Julia R., Radmila Stefkova, and Tamara R. Williams. Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century . Routledge, 2024.
Brown, Julia R." Chiapas Cycle Blues: Rosario Castellanos’ Fictional Prose as Affective Mapping.’’ Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies , vol 26, 2022, pp 57-80.
Brown, Julia R. “UnReading: New Approaches to Recorded Indigenous Knowledges Across Abiayala.” Chasqui, vol 49, no 1 , 2020.
Brown, Julia. “Aún maravillada: la fotografía de Graciela Iturbide con Carlos Monsiváis”. Inundación Castálida . Revista de la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, vol 5 , no 15 , 2020.
Brown, Julia.“ Frontera verde/Green Frontier (2019): Amazonia from Social Media to Netflix .” Mediático . 2019.
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