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​J. Andrew Brown

Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs
Professor of Spanish
Professor of Comparative Literature (by courtesy)
Biodiversity Fellow, Living Earth Collaborative
PhD, University of Virginia
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  • Email: abrown@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-7058
  • Office: Ridgley 408
    South Brookings 205

office hours:

  • By appointment only -

    Please contact:

    Abdul Ursani
    a.ursani@wustl.edu
    314-935-7011
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  • Washington University
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    One Brookings Drive
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Professor Brown's research and teaching interests focus on issues of technology, science, global popular culture, and Latin American cultural identity.

As Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs, Professor Brown works closely with chairs and directors on issues of recruitment, retention, tenure and promotion of faculty in Arts & Sciences. He manages external reviews of departments and supports a wide range of initiatives regarding faculty support.

Professor Brown is an expert on the interrelationships of science, technology and culture in contemporary Latin America and has written widely on these issues, including the monographs Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative (Bucknell University Press), Cyborgs in Latin America (Palgrave) and the edited volumes Tecnoescritura: Literatura y tecnología en América latina (Revista Iberoamericana) and Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice (Palgrave). 

He is currently working on a book that examines the intersections of the weird, horror, and ecoculture in Latin America.
 

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Book edited by Jonatán Martín Gómez y Patricio Sullivan, two PhD candidates at our Hispanic Studies program

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Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice

Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice

Edited By ​J. Andrew Brown

Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.

Cyborgs in Latin America

Cyborgs in Latin America

By ​J. Andrew Brown

Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.