Faculty

Carrie Tirado Bramen

Associate Professor of English, Executive Director of the Humanities Institute
Office: Clemens 537
Phone number: (716) 645-0707
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"

Forthcoming publications:


“1941--Leslie Fiedler” in New Literary History of America, ed. Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus.  (Harvard UP September 2009)
“James, Pragmatism and the Realist Ideal,” in The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Eds. Lenny Cassuto, Clare Eby and Benjamin Reiss. (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2010).
“The Christology of Niceness: Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Jesus Novel and Sacred Trivialities” Beyond Protestant Modernism: American Religious Liberalism Revisited.  Ed. Leigh Schmidt and Sally
Promey (Indiana University Press).


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).
"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.
"The Americanization of Theron Ware," Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Fall 1997)