J. Andrew Brown

J. Andrew Brown earned his Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Virginia in 2000. His research and teaching interests focus on issues of technology, science, global popular culture and Latin American cultural identity. He is the author of Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative (Bucknell UP, 2005) and editor of Tecnoescritura: Literatura y tecnología en América Latina, a special issue of Revista Iberoamericana 73.221 (Nov-Dec, 2007). His articles on Latin American narrative and film have appeared in such journals as Comparative Literature, Hispanic Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Science Fiction Studies, among others.

Professor Brown recently completed a book manuscript titled Southern Cyborgs: Posthuman Identity in Latin America in which he examines the articulation of cyborg identity in recent Latin American cultural production (narrative, film and advertising campaigns). He is also editing a collection of essays on Latin American science fiction and critical theory and has begun work on a project that examines the function of punk and post-punk music in recent Latin American narrative. He has served as the Publications Editor for the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos since 2005.