Assistant Dean in the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan
About
In addition to his work as a literary translator and scholar of U.S. Latinx literature, Dr. Brammer’s most recent publications have focused on student success and engagement.
In 2022, Assistant Dean Brammer was the first author on a first-in-the-nation case study focusing on graduate students with disabilities, which appeared in A Practitioner’s Guide to Supporting Graduate and Professional Students, a volume edited by Valerie Shepard and April Perry (Routledge, 2022).
In the same year, he co-authored a paper appearing in the Student Success Journal, which focused on high-impact practices (HIPs) for supporting student recruitment, persistence, and graduation, entitled “Are You HIP? How One Latinx Learning Community Integrates Ten High-Impact Practices to Foster Student Success” (Gonzales, Baier & Brammer, 2022).
Similarly, Dr. Brammer co-authored another study exploring evidence-based practiced to support the success of Latinx college students, entitled “Belonging in the Academy: Building a ‘Casa Away from Casa’ for Latino/a Undergraduate Students” (Gonzales, Brammer & Sawilowsky, 2015). This article was published in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education and presented at the annual conference for the American Association of Hispanic Higher Education (AAHHE).
Current Work:
As a literary scholar, Dr. Brammer's research centers on the intersection of transnational U.S. Latinx literatures with translation theory and practice. His doctoral dissertation, La patria perdida o imaginada: Translating Teodoro Torres in "el México de afuera," includes the first English translation of the first part of Teodoro Torres' ground-breaking immigration novel, La patria perdida (Ediciones Botas, 1935).
This project is part of his well-established body of work as a literary translator focusing on U.S. Latinx literature, which includes the translation of the first novel to treat the Latinx immigration experience in the United States, Lucas Guevara (Arte Público Press, 2003); the first novel to address Mexican-American immigration to the U.S., Under the Texas Sun (Arte Público Press, 2007); and, the first novel of Chicanx literature, The Adventures of Don Chipote: Or, When Parrots Breast-feed (Arte Público Press, 2000).
Research Area Keyword(s):
Latinx literature; translation theory; student success; DEI
