Amara Quamino holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where her dissertation examined post-colonial narrative structure in Anglophone African fiction. Before joining Clarebourne, she taught at the Exeter Academy for four years and spent one year as a visiting lecturer at Yale’s Directed Studies program.
She has published essays in Literary Imagination and Transition magazine, and she maintains an active writing practice alongside her teaching. She teaches the Senior Seminar in Literature of Migration & Displacement and the Grade 9 core humanities sequence.
“I tell my students on the first day that I am not interested in whether they liked the book. I am interested in whether they can make an argument about it, defend that argument when challenged, and revise it honestly when they’re wrong. That’s the whole course.”
Clarebourne since 2007