Steven F. Butterman, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Portuguese Language Program at the University of Miami. He also directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Winner of the Brazilian International Press Award, Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2004 University of Miami Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, Butterman 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, and LGBTQ studies. He 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 and (In)Visibilidade Vigilante: representações midiáticas da maior parada gay do planeta, published by nVersos, in São Paulo, in 2012. Currently, Butterman is working on the final revisions for his third book manuscript, entitled Brazilian Portugays: LGBT Language and Culture in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press.
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Tanya Saunders, Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies
John Petrus, Tinker Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
