Profile

Amina Shabani joined Princeton University in 2021. She holds a PhD in Spanish Literatures with a double minor in African Studies and Portuguese from Indiana University-Bloomington. Before coming to Princeton, Shabani taught at Boston University, Butler University, and IU-Bloomington a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses in Spanish and occasionally French. Her teaching and research interests include Afro-Latin American literatures by women, African, Caribbean and Lusophone literatures. Shabani is also a faculty adviser at Rockefeller College.