Office: 537 Clemens
Phone: 645-2575, ext.1058
E-mail: bramen@buffalo.edu

Teaching (Spring 2007)
English 342: US Latina Writers in Trans-American Contexts MWF 1

UGC 211 (Honors): American Pluralism, MWF 3

Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature
MA University of Sussex (UK), Critical Theory

American literature, Latina/o literature

Carrie Tirado Bramen works on American literature and culture and contemporary Latino/a writing. She is the recipient of three teaching awards: the Milton Plesur Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Association at UB, the Golden Key National Honor Society, as well as the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

She is the author of The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (2000), which was the co-winner of the Thomas J. Wilson First Book Prize at Harvard University Press. In 2005-6, she was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center of American History at Harvard. She has published a range of articles on nineteenth century US literature, religion and the picturesque, on the academic job market, and on contemporary African American fiction of latinidad. She is currently working on a book titled "American Niceness: On the National Need To Please".