Michael L. Butterworth [email protected] Moody College of Communication (512) 475-9151 2504A Whitis Ave. (A1105) @BurntO_Butterwo CMA 7.138D University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Director, Center for Sports Communication and Media 2017-present Professor, Department of Communication Studies 2017-present Ohio University Athens, OH Director, School of Communication Studies 2013-2017 Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies 2013-2017 Research Fellow, Center for Entrepreneurship 2014-2017 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH Chair, Department of Communication Studies 2011-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies 2006-2011 Affiliate Faculty, American Culture Studies 2006-2013 Associate Director, School of Media and Communication 2008-2010 Indiana University Bloomington, IN Editorial Assistant, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 2004-2006 Associate Instructor, Department of Communication and Culture 2002-2004 College of Lake County Grayslake, IL Instructor, Division of Communication Arts 1998-2002 Director of Forensics 1998-2002 Co-Coordinator, Honors Program 2000-2002 Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL Graduate Assistant, Department of Communication 1994-1996 EDUCATION Indiana University Bloomington, IN Ph.D., Communication and Culture (Rhetoric and Public Culture) July, 2006 Minor Concentration, Socio-Political Theory Marquette University Milwaukee, WI Graduate Coursework in Communication Studies and Higher Education 2000-2001 Butterworth Curriculum Vitae, 1 Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL M.A., Communication (Rhetorical Studies) August, 1996 Scholarly Paper: “Selling the Drama: The Evolution of Liberal Political Rhetoric” Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL B.A. Political Science (International Relations) May, 1993 Minor, History PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Grano, Daniel A., and Michael L. Butterworth, eds. Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle (advance contract with Peter Lang book series, “Frontiers in Political Communication,” Edited by Mitchell S. McKinney and Mary E. Stuckey). Angel, Adriana, Nancy Gómez, and Michael L. Butterworth, eds. Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas (advance contract with Penn State University Press book series, “Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation,” Edited by Cheryl Glenn and Stephen Browne). Butterworth, Michael L., ed. Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2017. Billings, Andrew C., Michael L. Butterworth, and Paul D. Turman. Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field, 3rd Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2017. [Previous editions published in 2011 and 2014.] Butterworth, Michael L. Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010. [Reviewed by Jeffrey B. Kurtz, Quarterly Journal of Speech 100 (May 2014): 258-262; reviewed by Todd F. McDorman, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14 (Fall 2011): 559-562; reviewed by Stephen Andon, Southern Communication Journal 76 (July-August 2011): 264-267; reviewed by Ari de Wilde, Journal of Sport History 38 (Fall 2011), 496-497.] PUBLICATIONS: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES Foote, Justin Gus, Michael L. Butterworth, and Jimmy Sanderson. “Adrian Peterson and ‘The Wussification of America’: Football and Myths of Masculinity.” Communication Quarterly 65 (2017): 268-284. Butterworth, Michael L., and Karsten Senkbeil. “Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Religion as ‘Character’: Football and Soccer in the United States and Germany.” International Review for the Sociology of Sport 52 (2017): 129-145. [Lead article] Butterworth, Michael L., and Raymond I. Schuck. “American Mythology and Ambivalent Rhetoric in Friday Night Lights.” Southern Communication Journal 81 (April-June 2016): 92-106. Butterworth Curriculum Vitae, 2 Butterworth, Michael L. “Nate Silver and Campaign 2012: Sport, the Statistical Frame, and the Rhetoric of Electoral Forecasting.” Journal of Communication 64 (October 2014): 895-914. [Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award, National Communication Association Political Communication Division, 2015] Butterworth, Michael L. “Public Memorializing in the Stadium: Mediated Sport, the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11, and the Illusion of Democracy.” Communication & Sport 2 (September 2014): 203-224. [Lead article] Butterworth, Michael L. “The Passion of the Tebow: Sports Media and Heroic Language in the Tragic Frame.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 30 (March 2013): 17-33. Butterworth, Michael L. “Militarism and Memorializing at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9 (September 2012): 241-258. [Lead article] Butterworth, Michael L. “Saved at Home: Christian Branding and Faith Nights in the ‘Church of Baseball.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (August 2011): 309-333. Gorsevski, Ellen W., and Michael L. Butterworth. “Muhammad Ali’s Fighting Words: The Paradox of Violence in Nonviolent Rhetoric.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (February 2011): 50-73. Butterworth, Michael L., and Stormi D. Moskal. “American Football, Flags, and ‘Fun’: The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Rhetorical Production of Militarism.” Communication, Culture & Critique 2 (December 2009): 411-433. [Lead article] Butterworth, Michael L. “’Katie Was Not Only a Girl, She was Terrible’: Katie Hnida, Body Rhetoric, and College Football at the University of Colorado.” Communication Studies 59 (July-September 2008): 259-273. Butterworth, Michael L. “Purifying the Body Politic: Steroids, Rafael Palmeiro, and the Rhetorical Cleansing of Baseball.” Western Journal of Communication 72 (April-June 2008): 145-161. [Special issue on Communication and the Community of Sport] Butterworth, Michael L. “Race in ‘The Race’: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Heroic Constructions of Whiteness.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 24 (August 2007): 228- 244. Butterworth Curriculum Vitae, 3 Butterworth, Michael L. “The Politics of the Pitch: Claiming and Contesting Democracy through the Iraqi National Soccer Team.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4 (June 2007): 184-203. [Reprinted in Carl Burgchardt, ed., Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 4th ed. (State College, PA: Strata, 2010), 377-394.] Butterworth, Michael L. “Pitchers and Catchers: Mike Piazza and the Discourse of Gay Identity in the National Pastime.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 30 (May 2006): 138-157. Butterworth, Michael L. “Ritual in the ‘Church of Baseball’: Suppressing the Discourse of Democracy after 9/11.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 2 (June 2005): 107-129. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS Butterworth, Michael L. “The World Series: Baseball, American Exceptionalism, and Media Ritual.” In MegaMediaSport: Mediatization and Global Sports Spectacles, 218-231. Edited by Andrew C. Billings and Lawrence A. Wenner. London: Routledge, 2017. Butterworth, Michael L. “Sport as Rhetorical Artifact.” In Defining Sport Communication, 11- 25. Edited by Andrew C. Billings. New York: Routledge, 2017. Butterworth, Michael L. “Sport and Politics in the United States.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics, 150-161. Edited by Alan Bairner, John Kelly, and Jung Woo Lee London: Routledge, 2017. Butterworth, Michael L. “Everybody’s All-Americans: High School Football and the U.S. Military.” In Football, Culture and Power, 139-155. Edited by David Leonard, Wade Davis, and Kimberly George. London: Routledge, 2016. Hillman, Cory A., and Michael L. Butterworth. “Keeping It Real: Sports Video Game Advertising and the Fan-Consumer.” In Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play. Edited by Thomas Oates and Robert Alan Brookey, 152-171. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. Butterworth, Michael L. “NFL Films and the Militarization of Professional Football.” In The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives, 205-225. Edited by Thomas Oates and Zack Furness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. Butterworth, Michael L. “Sports Rhetoric in New Media.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media, 32-42. Edited by Andrew C. Billings and Marie Hardin. New York: Routledge, 2014. Butterworth, Michael L. “Introduction: Communication and Sport Identity Scholarship and the Identity of Communication and Sport Scholars.” In New Agendas in Communication: Sports and Identity, 1-16. Edited by Barry Brummett and Andrew Ishak. New York: Routledge, 2014. Butterworth Curriculum Vitae, 4 Butterworth, Michael L. “Coaches Gone Wild: Media, Masculinity, and Morality in Big Time College Football.” In Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture, 284-297. Edited by Lawrence A. Wenner. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Butterworth, Michael L. “Major League Baseball, Welcome Back Veterans, and the Rhetoric of ‘Support the Troops.’” In The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad, 226-240. Edited by Ron Briley. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. Butterworth, Michael L. “Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle.” In Examining Identity in Sports Media, 133-152. Heather Hundley and Andrew C. Billings. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010. Butterworth, Michael L. “The Rhetoric of Baseball: Citizenship and the Public Speaking Classroom.” In Baseball in the Classroom: Teaching America's National Pastime, 145-151. Edited by Edward J. Rielly. Jefferson,