Amina Gautier

Gautier was born and raised in New York. After participating in Prep for Prep, she attended the Nightingale Bamford School before graduating from Northfield Mount Hermon.[1] She then went to Stanford, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in English literature.

She held a Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship at Stanford University, a Fontaine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, a Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship at Marquette University, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gautier is a scholar of 19th century American literature. She has written criticism of the nineteenth century American authors Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elleanor Eldridge, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman. Her critical essays and reviews have appeared in African American Review, Belles Lettres, Daedalus, Journal of American History, Libraries and Culture, Nineteenth Century Contexts and Whitman Noir. She has received fellowships from the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), the Social Science Research Council and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Gautier has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University, Saint Joseph's University and Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently, Gautier taught at DePaul University. In fall 2014, she joined the faculty in the MFA program at the University of Miami.[7]

Gautier is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, the Chicago Writer's Association, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Friends of American Writers Chicago, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of University Women, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Urban League and the Society of Midland Authors.