Assistant Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 16A
Phone: (610) 660-1890
Email: agautier@sju.edu
Education
BA,Stanford University, 1999
MA, Stanford University, 1999
MA, U Penn, 2002
PhD, U Penn, 2004
Publications
"African-American Women's Writings in the Woman's Building Library."
Libraries and Culture, Volume: 41 Number: 1, Winter 2006, pp. 55-81. University of Texas Press.
“Review of Candice Jenkins. Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy.” African American Review, Volume 41, Number 4, pp. 818-819.
“Review of Ryan Simmons. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2008, pp. 289-291.
“Review of Yolanda Pierce. Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity & the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative.” African-American Review, Volume 41, Number 4, Winter 2007, pp. 14-15.
“Review of Mona Z. Smith. Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee.” African-American Review, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 387-8.
General Fields of Professional Interest
Creative Writing (Fiction); American Short Story; Craft of the Novella; African American letters; 19th Century American Literature; Chesnutt StudiesOther information
Following in the footsteps of the late nineteenth century African American intellectual (Chesnutt, DuBois, Harper, and Hopkins) who merged both critical and creative talents, my academic interests are two-fold. My background as a scholar of 19th Century American literature and, more generally, African American literature combines with my training as a fiction writer such that I am both a critic and a creative writer, fully engaged in both the analysis of literature and the production of it. More than fifty of my short stories have been published, appearing or forthcoming in Antioch Review, Callaloo, Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, Pleiades, Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Storyquarterly among others in addition to being anthologized in Best African American Fiction, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best, 2008, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, and Voices. My fiction has been performed in the Writing Aloud Series with InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and has been honored with the William Richey Prize, the Jack Dyer Award, the Danahy Fiction Award, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award. My critical work focuses on intersections of race and gender in the work of such nineteenth century American authors as Elleanor Eldridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nancy Prince, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman. I am currently working on a monograph titled Wielding the Stronger: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Politics of Gender.
Memberships
Member of Associated Writing Programs (AWP), American Literature
Association (ALA), American Studies Association (ASA), Modern Language
Association (MLA), Charles Chesnutt Society, National Council of Negro
Women, National Association of University Women, NAACP
Honors
Postdoctoral Fellow, African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007-9
David R. Sokolov Scholar, Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, 2008
Summer Research Grant, Saint Joseph’s University, 2006
Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, 2005
Work-Study Scholar (Waiter), Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, 2003
Fellow, Ucross Writer’s Residency, 2003
