Dr. Maia Butler, associate professor in the UNCW Department of English, is a recipient of a 2023 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Book Award in the Edited Collection category. SAMLA honors two outstanding scholarly works each year: one monograph and one edited collection.
Dr. Butler received the award for Edited Collections Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat, co-edited with Drs. Joanna Davis-McElligatt and Megan Feifer. The collection contains 15 essays that explore Danticat’s writing, anthologizing and storytelling in relation to concepts of belonging and home.
One of the essays is written by Dr. Jennifer Lozano, also in the UNCW Department of English, and has been lauded by reviewers.
“For my co-editors and me, receiving the SAMLA Studies Book Award feels like the completion of a circle of our devotion to Edwidge Danticat’s work,” said Butler. “It was at the SAMLA conference in 2017 that the Edwidge Danticat Society held two panel discussions with such an engaged audience. We knew then that our papers could be the beginning of a larger project.”
SAMLA, founded in 1928, is an organization of teachers, scholars, and students dedicated to the advancement of literary and linguistic scholarship and teaching in the modern languages.
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