Maia L. Butler

Maia L. Butler is associate professor of African American literature at UNC Wilmington and affiliate faculty in women’s and gender studies, africana studies, and graduate liberal studies.

She is a literary geographer researching and teaching in African diasporic, Anglophone postcolonial, and American studies (broadly conceived), with an emphasis on Black women’s literature and feminist theories. Dr. Butler is the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Democracy and Landscape Studies, and in fall 2023 is in residence in the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Harvard Research Institute Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., working on a monograph which explores Black women and nonbinary writers’ post-national imaginaries. She is the co-founding vice president of the Edwidge Danticat Society and co-editor of Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat (Mississippi University Press, 2022).