Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Portuguese Language Program since 2000, Steven F. Butterman teaches Portuguese language courses and Brazilian literature and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. While at UM, Butterman has also held visiting professor / scholar posts at Middlebury College, Tulane University, the University of São Paulo (USP), and Unilasalle in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Appointed by the Institute of International Education as 2021-22 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Brazil, Butterman has delivered over 40 invited talks and keynote addresses at universities throughout Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Butterman is the author of Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil, published by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2021, (In)Visibilidade Vigilante: representações midiáticas da maior parada gay do planeta, published by nVersos, in São Paulo in 2012, and Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso, published in 2005 by San Diego State University Press.
Steven Butterman