The recipient of three teaching awards including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Carrie Tirado Bramen teaches courses in 19th-century American literature, American 1890s, US Latinx cultural studies, travel writing and creative nonfiction.
She is the author of "American Niceness: A Cultural History," a study of the role niceness has played in configuring a democratic personality that is free from Old World snobbery. From Native American hospitality to the creation of the personable Jesus, this cultural history of the United States demonstrates the centrality of sociality for thinking about national and political cultures. Her essay, “Niceness in a Neoliberal Age,” recently appeared in Public Culture (May 2018).
Her first book, "The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness" (Harvard UP 2000), was co-winner of the Thomas J. Wilson prize for best first book published by Harvard University Press.
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