She is the author or co-author of many books, chapters in books and articles in journals such as Canadian Military History and RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review.
[2] Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled "The Canadian War Museum's Art Collections as a Site of Meaning, Memory, and Identity in the Twentieth Century".
She was also an Adjunct Research Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture and in the History Department at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario as well as a Research Associate at the Canadian War Museum.
[4] Brandon has published extensively on war art and on the artists in the collection of the Canadian War Museum in books, journals, and encyclopedia articles which she authored or co-authorized such as "Canvas of war: painting the Canadian experience, 1914 to 1945", praised by peers[5] and "Art or Memorial?
The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art" (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006) as well as on Pegi Nicol MacLeod, in "Pegi by Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist" (Montreal: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2005).