Dr. Julia R. Brown

Professor Brown wears a blue sleeveless top and stands against a background of palm fronds
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: CU 276
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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 大象传媒 in Boca Raton, Florida. NGO work in Intibuc谩, Honduras; Boaco, Nicaragua; and Guair谩, 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-Garc铆a Robles award.

She has served as Editorial Assistant and Managing Editor for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (University of California Press).

Select Publications

Brown, Julia R., Radmila Stefkova, and Tamara R. Williams. . Routledge, 2024.

Brown, Julia R." Chiapas Cycle Blues: Rosario Castellanos鈥 Fictional Prose as Affective Mapping.鈥欌 Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies , vol 26, 2022, pp 57-80.

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Brown, Julia.鈥 .鈥 惭别诲颈谩迟颈肠辞 . 2019.

Select Courses

LAS 2000: Introduction to Latin American Studies
SPN 3501: Latin American Culture and Civilization
SPN 6939: Mexican Literature and Film
SPN 3400: Advanced Grammar