Thursday, February 22, 2018 4pm to 5pm
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The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures present the first presentation of the Linda E. McMahon Lecture Series: Professor J. Andrew Brown of Washington University in St. Louis will present “Mariana Enríquez and the Weirding of Buenos Aires” on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:00 p.m. in Bate 1032.
Professor Brown will explore the Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez’s engagement with the weird, as a genre and in recent philosophy. In particular, he’ll examine her story, “El chico sucio” to appreciate how she weaves together horror, folk magic and critiques of neoliberalism in new depiction of weird realism in Buenos Aires.
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, the weird, global popular culture and Latin American cultural identity. He is the author of Cyborgs in Latin America, Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative, and editor of Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice and Tecnoescritura: Literatura y tecnología en América Latina, a special issue of Revista Iberoamericana. For more information contact: knickerbockerd@ecu.edu
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