She now lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband, Kent Butterfield, a pastor, and their children. She has taught and ministered at Geneva College. She now frequently speaks at churches and universities about her experience. Following her conversion, she developed a ministry to college students. Two years later, Butterfield converted to evangelical Christianity. Her subsequent friendship with the Smiths led to her re-evaluation of her presuppositions. Ken Smith, the then- pastor of the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church, wrote to her regarding this article and invited her to dinner. While researching the Religious Right and their "politics of hatred" against the queer community, she wrote an article criticizing the evangelical organization Promise Keepers. For nearly a decade, she lived as an openly lesbian activist. She is most widely known today for her autobiography The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into the Christian Faith, in which she details her transformation from a postmodernist into a Bible-believing Christian. Growing up, Butterfield attended predominantly liberal Catholic schools. She was awarded tenure in 1999, the same year that she converted to Christianity. Her academic interest was focused on feminist theory, queer theory and 19th century British literature. During her academic career, she published the book The Politics of Survivorship: Incest, Women's Literature, and Feminist Theory as well as many scholarly articles. from Ohio State University in English Literature, served in the English Department and Women's Studies Program at Syracuse University from 1992 to 2002. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield (born 1962) is a writer, speaker, homemaker, and former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University.īutterfield, who earned her Ph.D. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into the Christian Faith
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