Joseph Buttigieg

Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II[1][2] (May 20, 1947 – January 27, 2019)[3] was a Maltese-American literary scholar and translator.[4] He served as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 2017, when he was named professor emeritus. Buttigieg cotranslated and coedited the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

Joseph Buttigieg
Born
Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II

(1947-05-20)May 20, 1947
Hamrun, Malta
DiedJanuary 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 71)
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Malta (B.A., M.A.)
Heythrop College, University of London (B.Phil.)
Binghamton University (Ph.D.)
OccupationScholar, academic, translator
Spouse(s)
Jennifer Anne Montgomery
(
m. 1980)
ChildrenPete Buttigieg

Early life and education

Buttigieg was the eldest of eight children born to Joseph Anthony and Maria Concetta Buttigieg (née Portelli) in Hamrun, Malta.[3] He began his education in Hamrun, completing undergraduate work and a master's degree at the University of Malta.[5] He earned a second bachelors degree, a B.Phil., from Heythrop College of the University of London and a Ph.D. in English (1976; with a dissertation on aesthetics in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) from Binghamton University.[3][5] He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1979. [3]

Career and personal life

Buttigieg taught at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces starting in 1976 and there met Jennifer Anne Montgomery, also a new faculty member.[3] In 1980, they married and also joined the faculty of Notre Dame.[3][6] Their son, Pete Buttigieg, was elected as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and ran for the Democratic nomination as presidential candidate in the 2020 election. Pete said in his book, Shortest Way Home, that his father was called racial slurs, even though he was European, because of his darker skin.[7]

Buttigieg specialized in modern European literature and theory.[8] He was translator and editor of the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, published from 1992 to 2007 with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[9] He was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society, founded to facilitate communication between those who study Antonio Gramsci.[10] He also served as chair of the English Department at Notre Dame and was promoted to William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English.[5] He took emeritus status upon retiring in 2017.[5] He died on January 27, 2019.[11]

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  1. Luperini, Romano (1997). "Otto Tesi Sull'attualità di Gramsci". Belfagor. 52 (6): 715–720. JSTOR 26147966.
  2. "El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas on February 10, 1980". Newspapers.com. 435883803.
  3. "Joseph A. Buttigieg". Obituaries. South Bend Tribune. South Bend, Indiana. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  4. St. Martin, Victoria (January 27, 2019). "'It's been a good trip.' Father of Mayor Pete Buttigieg dies after illness". South Bend Tribune. South Bend, Indiana. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  5. "Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program to seek new director to replace retiring Joseph Buttigieg". Notre Dame News (Press release). University of Notre Dame. December 15, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  6. Fuller, Jaime (March 10, 2014). "The most interesting mayor you've never heard of". Washington Post. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  7. "Professor reflects on son's mayoral victory". The Observer. November 10, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  8. "Joseph A. Buttigieg // Department of English". english.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  9. Deacon, Roger (December 1, 1998). "Gramsci, Antonio. "Prison Notebooks", Volume II, edited and translated by Joseph E. Buttigieg (Book Review) - ProQuest". Theoria. 92: 163. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  10. "Buttigieg". University profile. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019.
  11. Flake, Marie (January 27, 2019). "Mayor Pete Buttigieg mourns father's passing". ABC57. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  12. Leitch, Vincent B. (1988). "Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies, and: Criticism without Boundaries: Directions and Crosscurrents in Postmodern Critical Theory (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 34 (2): 319–321. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0707. ISSN 1080-658X.
  13. Bennett, James R. (Winter 1992). "After and beyond "new criticism"". Style. 26 (4): 678–686. JSTOR 42946012.
  14. Feshbach, Sidney (Spring 1988). "Reviewed Work: A Portrait of the Artist in different perspective by Joseph A. Buttigieg". James Joyce Quarterly. 25 (3): 385–391. JSTOR 25484891.
  15. Yip, Kwok Hung (September 2003). "Book reviews". International Journal of Lifelong Education. 22 (5): 542–554. doi:10.1080/0260137032000102878.
  16. Harper, William A. (January 1, 2004). "European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Thomas Kselman and Joseph A. Buttigieg. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 352 pp. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper". Journal of Church and State. 46 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1093/jcs/46.1.143. ISSN 0021-969X.
  17. Spanos, William V. (January 2006). "Cuvier's Little Bone: Joseph Buttigieg's English Edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks". Rethinking Marxism. 18 (1): 23–36. doi:10.1080/08935690500410593.
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