From Dr. Butler's Desk
Maia L. Butler, Ph.D.Reading, thinking, teaching, and writing about the literary production of Black women and queer Black writers.
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The Novels of Toni Morrison: Resources for Your 2026 Personal Curriculum
I’m talking with one of my Center for Fiction cohorts tonight about Paradise, one of my favorite Morrison novels (it’s so hard to have favorites, as we know). But, this novel made it into my dissertation. I teach it almost every year becaus...
Short Story Discussion: Registration is Open!
“It took Arnold six and a half seconds to fall five hundred feet.”
Everything Inside, Edwidge Danticat’s 2019 collection, is presented as a short-story cycle representing the lives of Haitian emigrants to the United States in the wake of t...
“Love as Method: Black Feminist Archival Praxis”
I’m thrilled to share some research that I began thinking about last fall and shaped into a graduate seminar and a couple of discussion circles in order to think about in community with you all. I’ve applied to an archival fellowship to get...
Reflections on the Academic Year
When winning an award feels bittersweet
I have just about wrapped up my eighth year as a professor. The moment of annual reports—the mandate to give an accounting of all the research, teaching, and service work we’ve done in the academic y...
The Novels of Toni Morrison: Resources for Your 2026 Personal Curriculum
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Margaret Garner and Critical Fabulation
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Conjure and herbal literacy
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I'm a mother, a partner, a gardener and community member. I'm a professor who specializes in Black diasporic women's literary geographies. I love living in Black women's wor(l)ds; they are blueprints for survival and to a more just future.
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