Courses
Spanish American Literature II, Argentine Cinema, Science and the Latin American Literary Imagination

Research Interests
Professor Brown's current research focuses on the intersections of technology and identity in Latin American culture. He is in the middle of a book-length project, tentatively titled Southern Cyborgs: Posthuman Identity in Latin America, which explore the construction of a posthuman or cyborg identity that is grounded in the Latin American realities of post-dictatorship and neoliberal policy. He examines novels by Ricardo Piglia, Manuel Puig, Alberto Fuguet, Rodrigo Fresán, Rafael Courtoisie, Eugenia Prado, Carmen Boullosa, Alicia Borinsky, and Edmundo Paz Soldán; films by Adolfo Aristarain, Raúl de la Torre, and Fernando Spiner; and advertising campaigns and other forms of cultural expression.

Professor Brown is also working on an article that examines the relationship between US science fiction and the McOndo authors, paying particular attention to Philip K. Dick, Edmundo Paz Soldán, and Rodrigo Fresán. He is very interested in the ways in which Latin Americans consume US popular culture. In particular, he examines the way television programs are marketed, viewed, and internalized. Among other things, internet fan clubs of specific programs and the fan fiction that these groups produce serve as focal points of the study.

Selected Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
TecnoEscritura: Literatura y tecnología en Latinoamérica. Intro. & Ed. Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana 73.220 (Julio-Sept, 2007).

Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005.

Articles
“Identidad poshumana en Lóbulo de Eugenia Prado.” Forthcoming in Revista Iberoamericana 73.220 (Julio-Sept. 2007).

“Sobrevivientes y cyborgs: Cine argentino al final de la dictadura.” Forthcoming in Cine, Historia, Sociedad: Tres décadas de cine en Argentina y Brasil. Ed. Gaston Lillo & Walter Moser. Ottawa: U Ottawa P, 2007.

“Hacking the Past: Edmundo Paz Soldán’s El delirio de Turing and Carlos Gamerro’s Las Islas.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 10 (December, 2006): 115-29.

“Life Signs: Ricardo Piglia's Cyborgs.” Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World. Ed. Jerry Hoeg & Kevin Larsen. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 87-107.

“Ripped Stitches: Consumerism, Technology, and Posthuman Identity in Rafael Courtoisie's Tajos.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 15.2 (August, 2006): 127-42.