Butler, Maia L

Butler, Maia L
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, English , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2022-01-01	Blogging Race, Blogging Nation: Digital Diaspora as Home in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.. College Literature. 49. 2022-01-01
2022-01-01	Contending with the palimpsest: Reading the land through Black women’s emotional geographies.. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Special Issue: Displacements.. 2022-01-01
2021-01-01	Haiti’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future: Danticat’s New Yorker column as Platform for Public Intellectualism.. Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat.. 2021-01-01
2020-01-01	Fight for your life, Ava!’: Segregation, Im/mobility, and Fighting for African American Futures in Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us.. North Carolina Literary Review, Special issue: Expatriate North Carolina Authors. 2020-01-01
2020-01-01	Sowing the Seeds: Decolonial Practices and Pedagogies.. Special Colloquia Section . 41. 2020-01-01
2019-01-01	Edwidge Danticat’s Elegiac Project: A Transnational Historiography of U.S. Imperialist State Violence.. Routledge. 2019-01-01

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2019-01-01	The Exigency of the Floating Homeland and Engaging Postnationalisms in the Classroom: Approaches to Teaching Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.. Approaches to Teaching Edwidge Danticat.. 2019-01-01

Document

Year	Title	Altmetric
2019-01-01	Leaving Home to Return Home: Writing North Carolina Homeplace from the Particular to the Universal, an Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts.. North Carolina Literary Review.. 2019-01-01
	Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on the Work of Edwidge Danticat.. University Press of Mississippi.

Presentations

Creating Critical Pedagogy Communities: The ‘bell hooks Teaching Trilogy Reading Circle’ as model of cultivating engaged pedagogical praxes., A Symposium on Race and Education. 2022-04-01
#GetLit The Poet X., Centro Hispano, and LGBTQ Center 2021-03-01
Edwidge Danticat Roundtable: Book Talk Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat., Midwest Regional African American Studies Biennial Conference. Ball State University 2021-03-01
The Rise of the Hip Hop South., Upperman African American Cultural Center 2021-03-01
Black Lives Matter in the U.S. and Haiti: Edwidge Danticat’s Diasporic View., BLM/Ferguson in the Black Atlantic. Association for Black Cultural Centers 2020-10-01
Applied Learning: Lessons in Collaboration and Engagement Preparedness for Service-Learning Experiences, Virtual Applied Learning Summer Institute 2020-07-01
Applied Learning: Lessons in Collaboration and Engagement Preparedness for Service-Learning Experiences, Summer Assessment Team Meeting: Service Learning 2020-06-01
Black Women Writers, Postnational Imaginaries, and Public Humanities., NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference. 2020-03-01
Black Women Writers’ Narratives of Resistance through Game Play, Performance, and Transnational Identities and Geographies, South Atlantic MLA 2018-11-01
Fight for your life, Ava!’: Segregation, Im/mobility, and Fighting for African American Futures in Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us., North Carolina Literature Review Panel, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 2018-11-01
The Politics of Form in Edwidge Danticat’s Counter/Narratives of Memory, Home, and Nation,, Edwidge Danticat Society Affiliated Panel 2018-11-01
#GetLit: Parable of the Sower., Upperman African American Cultural Center. 2018-10-01
Visioning Black Futures: Edwidge Danticat as Cultural Worker., American Literature Association Conference 2018-05-01
Looking for the ‘Black Fantastic’ in Diasporic Geographies and the Literary Imagination., Black Communities Conference. 2018-04-01
What I Wish I Knew: Navigating the Terrain from Dissertation Defense to Year 1 of Faculty Appointment, Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Conference. 2018-04-01
Homes, Identities, and Geographies in the Literature of Edwidge Danticat., South Atlantic MLA Conference 2017-11-01
Memory, Orality, and Silence in the Literature of Edwidge Danticat., South Atlantic MLA Conference 2017-11-01
#GetLit: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Upperman African American Cultural Center. 2017-10-01
Thirsty Tome: African American Literature from the Mountains to the Sea., Upperman African American Cultural Center. Keynote Speaker 2017-08-01
Dystopia and Utopia in Ethnic Literature., South Atlantic MLA Conference: 2016-11-01
Creative Transnationalisms: Floating Homeland as Postnational Community in Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously., American Literature Association 2016-05-01
The Imaginary and the Political in the Works of Edwidge Danticat., American Literature Association 2016-05-01
Literatures of the African Diaspora and the Other Arts., South Atlantic MLA Conference 2015-11-01
Imagining Countries, Re-memorying Homes: Displacement and Unhomeliness in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names., Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) 2015-04-01
“Blogging Race, Blogging Nation: Discursive Construction of Home in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah., South Atlantic MLA Conference 2014-11-01

Investigator On

Research Initiative Grant, UNCW College of Arts and Sciences 2020-01-01 - 2021-01-01

ETEAL COVID-19 Response Grant 2020-01-01

Teaching in Place: Contested Histories and Geographies 2018-01-01 - 2019-01-01

ETEAL Applied Learning Recovery Grant 2018-01-01

UL Lafayette Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant 2015-01-01

UL Lafayette Student Government Association Travel Grant 2015-01-01

UL Lafayette Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant 2014-01-01

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Maia L Butler

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