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Phone: 645-2575, ext.1058

E-mail: bramen@buffalo.edu

Publications 

Current Work In Progress:

"American Niceness: On the National Need to Please" (book).

Book:

The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (Harvard University Press, 2000).

Edited Journals:

Guest Editor.  Nineteenth Century Prose.  Special Issue on the "Picturesque."  29:2 (Fall 2002).

Articles and Reviews:

"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.

"A Transatlantic History of the Picturesque."  Nineteenth Century Prose 29:2  (Fall 2002): 1-19.

"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 (Sept., 2000):  444-477.

"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).

"The Americanization of Theron Ware." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 31:1 (Fall 1997): 63-86.

"Minority Hiring in the Age of Downsizing." Socialist Review 26: 3-4 (1996): 49-70.

Reprint. "Minority Hiring in the Age of Downsizing." Power in Academe: Race and Sex. eds. Shirley Lim, Maria Herrera-Sobek, Genaro Padilla. NY: Modern Language Association, 1999, 125-147.  

Translating Exile: The Metamorphosis of the Ordinary in Dominican Short Fiction." Latin American Literary Review 26 (January-June 1998): 63-78.

"Puerto Rican-American Literature" and "Dominican-American Literature." New Immigrant Literatures of the United States., ed. Alpana Sharma Knippling. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 207-219; 221-239.

Chapter Introduction. "The Professional Meets the Personal." On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. eds. Christina Boufis and Victoria Olsen. NY: Putnam Riverhead Books, 1997. 191-195.

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