Faculty
Carrie Tirado Bramen
Associate Professor of English, Executive Director of the Humanities Institute
Office: Clemens 537
Phone number: (716) 645-2575 x1058
E-mail address: bramen@buffalo.edu
Interests:
Nineteenth century American literature, U.S. Latino/a literature, cultural history, critical race theory, transatlantic & intellectual history
Courses taught:
Transatlantic Encounters: 19th Century Travel Narratives, The American 1890s, The Multicultural Nineteenth Century, American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, U.S. Latino Literature & Border Theory, U.S. Latina Literature & Feminist Theory, Introduction to US Latino Literature, American Literature, 1865-1914; Critical Race Theory
Work in progress:
“American Niceness: On the National Need to Please”
Selected publications:
The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness: Harvard University Press, 2000. [Co-winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize, awarded by the Board of Syndics at Harvard University Press for best first book published in all fields.]
Guest Editor. Nineteenth Century Prose. Special Issue on the "Picturesque." 29:2 (Fall 2002).
"Leslie Fiedler," New Literary History of America, eds. Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus, Harvard UP (forthcoming)
"Speaking in Typeface: Characterizing Stereotypes in Gayl Jones' Mosquito." Modern Fiction Studies 49:1 (Spring 2003): 124-154. Special Issue on "Fictions of the American (Trans)Imaginary," edited by Ramón Saldívar and Paula Moya.
"Why the Academic Left Hates Identity Politics." Textual Practice 16:2 (Spring 2002): 1-11.
"The Urban Picturesque and the Spectacle of Americanization." American Quarterly 52:3 (September 2000): 444-477.
"William Dean Howells and the Failure of the Urban Picturesque." The New England Quarterly (March 2000): 83-99.
"Christian Maidens and Heathen Monks: Oratorical Seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions." The Puritan Origins of American Sex. ed. Tracy Fessenden et al. New York: Routledge, 2000. 191-212.
