Steven F. Butterman

Steven F. Butterman, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Portuguese Language Program,
teaches Portuguese and Brazilian Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
and Queer Studies in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Miami. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.  A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a winner of the Brazilian International Press Award, Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2004 University of Miami Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, he has published articles on a wide range of topics, including 19th and 20th century Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture; Contemporary Brazilian Poetry and Music; Queer Theory; Women's Studies; Postmodernism; and Aesthetics. A member of the Executive Committee of BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association) and the Luso-Brazilian Executive Division of the MLA (Modern Language Association), Butterman is the author of" Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso,"published in 2005 by San Diego State University Press / Hyperbole Books. Butterman's current research project reconsiders Brazilian cinematic production under dictatorship (1969 - 1971), focusing on the internal dialogues between cinema novo and cinema marginal.