Carrie Bramen

Academic Profile

Academic Background: PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz. MA, University of Rochester.

Research Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature, U.S. Latinx literature, transatlantic 19th century, cultural history, feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, intellectual history.

Appointments: Professor, Department of English, University at Buffalo. Director, UB Gender Institute.

Publications:

• American Niceness: A Cultural History (Harvard University Press, 2017).
• The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (Harvard University Press, 2000).

Awards: SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.