Euge Helyantus Stumm

Ph.D. Candidate in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies

Education

Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies, Expected 2027, University of Miami, GPA: 4.0

• Advisor: Steven Butterman
• Committee: Ager Gondra, Claire Oueslati-Porter, Gema Pérez-Sánchez, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
• Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, Expected 2027
• Graduate Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2024

M.A. in Psychology, 2022, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, GPA: 4.0

• Thesis: How to be Furro: A Digital Ethnography Among Brazilian Furry Fandoms
• Advisor: Adolfo Pizzinato
• Committee: Débora Krischke Leitão, Paula Sandrine Machado, Rita de Cássia Sobreira Lopes

B.A. in Psychology, 2021, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre

• Thesis: Sempre personagens, às vezes atrizes, nunca diretoras: o cinema feito por diretoras trans e travestis brasileiras
• Advisor: Maria Paula Prates
• Committee: Aline Aver Vanin, Léo Tietboehl

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Schneider, K.; Stumm, E. H.; Rocha, R. Z.; Levandowski, D. C. (2023). “Innovative Practices in Developmental Psychology Teaching”. Psicologia Escolar e Educacional, 27: e242419. DOI: 10.1590/2175-35392023-242419-T

2. Stumm, E. H. (2021). “What if Goblins Were, Actually, Humans? Colonization, Racism, and Barbarism in Dragon’s Dogma”. Revista Contraponto, 8(2): 169–185.

3. Gurski, R.; Strzykalski, S.; Gomes, P. G.; Stumm, E. H. (2020). “The State of Art of Psychoanalysis and Education in Rio Grande do Sul”. Revista Educação e Pesquisa, 46: 1–15. DOI: 10.1590/S1678-4634202046224847

4. Stumm, E. H.; Weinmann, A. D. O. (2019). “The Cinema as a Creator of Prostheses: A Dildic Analysis of the ‘The Guys of the Sidewalks’”. Revista Periódicus, 1(11): 234–249. DOI: 10.9771/peri.v1i11.29254

Book Chapters and Edited Volumes

1. Stumm, E. H. (2021). “Manifesto Toward a Pirate Psychology”. In Gestos, Memórias e Narrativas da Escuta Clínica Permeada pela Tecnologia, pp. 162–168. Regional Council of Psychology of Rio Grande do Sul.

2. Piuco, T.; Stumm, E. H. (2020). “Queer Aesthetics: Between Empowerment and Erasure”. In Forum Fashion Revolution 2020, edited by Factum, A. and Carli, A. and Perini, A. and Anicet, A. and Camargo, C. and Barreto, C. and Lima, V., pp. 259–263. Ministry of Tourism and Unibes Cultural.

3. Stumm, E. H. (2020). “A Minor Gameography? Sex-political Multitudes and the Dissident Artistic Productions in the Indie Games Scene”. In Contra o cânone: Arte, feminismo(s) e ativismos séculos XVIII a XXI Seminário Internacional, edited by Giunta, A. and Biczel, D. and Lopes, F. and Simões, I., pp. 170–175. Mercosur Biennial Foundation.

Teaching Experience

University of Miami

Instructor

1. Digital Literacy Through Cultural and Literary Topics in Spanish (SPA 410/MLL 410) — Fall 2025
   • Co-taught with Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent

2. Basic Spanish I (SPA 101) — Spring 2025

3. Queer Studies (GSS 305) — Fall 2024
   • Co-taught with Dr. Steven Butterman

4. Intermediate Portuguese I (POR 201) — Spring 2024

5. Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (POR 105) — Fall 2023

Mentored Teaching

1. Queer Studies (SPA 330) — Spring 2024
   • Supervised by Dr. Steven Butterman
2. Topics in Gender and Sexuality (GSS 305) — Fall 2023
   • Supervised by Dr. Gema Pérez-Sánchez
3. Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS 202) — Fall 2023
   • Supervised by Dr. Steven Butterman

Teaching Assistant

1. LGBTQIA+ Brazil: Queering & Querying the Paradise of Paradox (POR 699) — Spring 2023
   • Supervised by Dr. Steven Butterman
2. Contemporary Brazilian Film: From Cinema Novo to Cinema Novíssimo (POR 699) — Fall 2022
   • Supervised by Dr. Steven Butterman

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Teaching Assistant

1. Diversity and Human Development — 2022
   • Supervised by Dr. Adolfo Pizzinato
2. Psychology Applied to Health Sciences — 2022
   • Supervised by Dr. Adolfo Pizzinato

Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre

Teaching Assistant

1. Developmental Psychology I — 2018–2021
   • Supervised by Dr. Daniela Centenaro Levandowski
2. Developmental Psychology II — 2018–2021
   • Supervised by Dr. Daniela Centenaro Levandowski

Conference Presentations

Presenter

“The Poet is Present: Marico Carmona’s Bodily Presence in Poetry Slams as an Strategy Towards Inclusive Language in Spanish.”
LASA 2025: Poner el cuerpo en Latinx America.
Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2025.

“Brazilian Funk in Pajubá: How Travesti Funkeiras Utilize Cryptolects for Collective Enunciation.”
Harvard University’s Graduate Music Forum Conference: TRANS*Media.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, March 2025.

“From Christine de Pizan to Christine and the Queens: Gender Bending as Transgression of Normative Identity Politics.”
International Conference of Europeanists: Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation & Reaction (30th).
Sciences Po Lyon & Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France, July 2024.

“Pabujá as a Community of Practices.”
Samuel Armistead Colloquium (17th).
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, April 2024.

“From Brazilian Literary Feet Lovers to Reddit Femboys: Imagining Queer Multitudes as a Form of Alliance.”
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature: Orientation: This Way, That Way & The Other.
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, May 2023.

“What is Queer About Queer Cinema: Queering Speculative Fabulation.”
Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium (Fifth Annual).
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA, March 2023.

“Quando a estrela é coadjuvante: a personagem queer no cinema brasileiro entre a primeira e a segunda metade do século XX.”
Biennal-International Symposium Vinculaciones: (Re)thinking the “We” in Latin America (7th).
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 2023.

“Machorras, Viados, and Sapas: Post-feminism and Furry alliances in Latin America and Global North.”
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Conference: Transcultural Expressions: Conflict, Identity, And Revitalization In Multicultural Spheres.
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA, March 2023.

Organizer

“Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures.”
Conceiving the Environment.
University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA, February 2024.
With Jacob Dennis, Kathy Rubio, Massiel Medina, and Neta Kanny.

Awards and Honors

Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarship (2025)
University of Miami – Graduate School
Amount: $500.00

Graduate Student Travel Support (2024)
University of Miami – Graduate School
Amount: $1,000.00

Outstanding Scientific Award [Prêmio Destaque de Sessão] – Graduate Program in Sociology, Students’ Seminar at UFRGS (2020)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
For presentation in the Panel “Diversities and Intersectionalities”

Outstanding Scientific Award [Prêmio Destaque de Sessão] (2019)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
For presentation in the Panel “Psychoanalysis and Cinema”

Nomination – Human Sciences’ Young Researcher Award [Prêmio Jovem Pesquisador] (2019)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Outstanding Scientific Award [Prêmio Destaque de Sessão] – Congress UFCSPA (2019)
Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre
For presentation in the panel “Teaching”

Funded Research

Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship (2025)
University of Miami
Amount: $1,000.00
Supervisor: Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent

Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship (2024)
University of Miami
Amount: $1,800.00
Supervisor: Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent

Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship (2023)
University of Miami
Amount: $1,000.00
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Schifani

Master’s Graduate Research Fellowship (2021–2022)
Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement (CAPES), Brazil
Amount: R$ 27,000.00
Supervisor: Dr. Adolfo Pizzinato

Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship (2019–2021)
Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil
Amount: R$ 8,000.00
Supervisor: Dr. Daniela Centenaro Levandowski

Projects

Pajubá Digital Archive

This digital archive features cultural productions and academic works that center around Pajubá. Pajubá (or Bajubá) is a cryptolect originally developed by Brazilian trans women and travestis to protect themselves from violence and persecution. All metadata in this project is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY.

Technologies/Methods: CollectionBuilder and d3.js

Collaborators: Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent and Dr. Steven Butterman (Supervisors)

Digital Mapping Néstor Perlongher’s “O Negócio do Michê”

An interactive StoryMap that digitally reconstructs the São Paulo locations from Néstor Perlongher’s “O Negócio do michê,” restoring details lost in later editions. This project uses open-source mapping tools (LeafLet and OpenStreetMaps) to visualize the spatial sequence of his original ethnography.

Technologies/Methods: Leaflet and OpenStreetMaps

Collaborators: Susanna Allés-Torrent (Supervisor)

Transylvania Witch

Online installation to be played in a loop. The website plays a spell that claims transforming you into a transgender woman. The installation consists of putting it in a public space and observing people’s reaction to the spell. If any of them become a transgender woman, please tell me!

Technologies/Methods: HTML

Non-binary in Binary

Online installation to be displayed in a loop. The website shows a number of non-binary identities (xenogender, mtx, demiboy, etc) converted into binary code. My goal is to reflect how non-binary gender identities cannot be understood in binary logics. This project was exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Technologies/Methods: HTML and Javascript

Workshops and Professional Development

How to Create StoryMaps Using Leaflet and OpenStreetMaps — University of Miami, 2025 Workshop offered in SPA 310 — Sephardic Literature. Supervised by Dr. Shai Cohen

How to Use CollectionBuilder — University of Miami, 2025 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick

Open-Source StoryMaps using Leaflet and OpenStreetMaps — University of Miami, 2025 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick

Data Literacy: R Language and Statistics Basics — University of Miami, 2025 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick

Data Literacy: Understanding Association and Causation in Data — University of Miami, 2025 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick

Introduction to Semantic Search with Semantra — University of Miami, 2024 Workshop offered in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures’s Lecture Series

Introduction to Markdown — University of Miami, 2024 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick and Michael Soriano

Introduction to GitHub + GitHub Pages — University of Miami, 2024 Workshop offered in the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Susanna Allés-Torrent; Co-facilitated with Elizabeth Cornick and Michael Soriano

Pajubá 101 — University of Miami, 2023 Workshop offered in POR 699 — Topics in Luso-Brazilian Cultures: LGBTQIA+ Brazil. Supervised by Dr. Steven Butterman

Languages

Portuguese: Native

English: Advanced

Spanish: Advanced

Pajubá: Advanced

French: Reading Proficiency

Last updated: September 2025