Amina Gautier

Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier

Amina Gautier is an American writer and academic. She is the author of three short story collections, many individual stories, as well as works of literary criticism. As of 2014, she lived in both Chicago and in Miami.

Gautier was born and raised in New York, USA. After participating in Prep for Prep, she attended the Nightingale Bamford School before graduating from Northfield Mount Hermon. She then went to Stanford, where she earned bachelor 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 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.

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