Julia Ruth Brown (she/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literatures at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. NGO work in Intibucá, Honduras; Boaco, Nicaragua; and Guairá, 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 non-commerical cinema of the 1970s. Julia's research has earned numerous grants, including a Fulbright-García Robles award. She is co-editor of Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century.

She resides in South Florida with her partner and dog.