Joseph A. Buttigieg
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English
Degrees
B.A., (Hons.), University of Malta; B.Phil., Heythrop College, Oxford; M.A., University of Malta; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
Specialty
Modern British literature, literary theory
Profile
Joseph A. Buttigieg's main interests are modern literature, critical theory, and the relationship between culture and politics. In addition to numerous articles, Buttigieg has authored a book on James Joyce's aesthetics, A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective. He is also the editor and translator of the multi-volume complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, a project that has been supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Several of his articles on Gramsci have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portugese, and Japanese. He was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society of which he is the executive secretary. The Italian Minister of Culture appointed him to a commission of experts to oversee the preparation of the "edizione nazionale" of Gramsci's writings. Buttigieg serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various journals, and he is a member of the editorial collective of Boundary 2.
Selected Publications
Criticism Without Boundaries: Directions and Crosscurrents in Postmodern Critical Theory. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1987.
A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987.
Borg, Carmel, Joseph A. Buttigieg, and Peter Mayo, eds. Gramsci and Education. Lanham, MA; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks. Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Contact Information
300 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7781
buttigieg.1@nd.edu