Joseph Buttigieg Explained

Birth Name:Joseph Anthony Buttiġieġ II
Birth Date:20 May 1947
Birth Place:Ħamrun, Crown Colony of Malta
Death Place:South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation:Scholar, academic, translator
Education:University of Malta (BA, MA)
Heythrop College, University of London (BPhil)
Binghamton University (PhD)
Children:Pete Buttigieg

Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II[1] [2] (; Maltese: Buttiġieġ pronounced as /mt/; May 20, 1947 – January 27, 2019)[3] was a Maltese-American Marxist[4] literary scholar and translator.[5] 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 co-translated and co-edited the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

Early life and education

Buttigieg was the eldest of eight children born to Joseph Anthony and Maria Concetta Buttigieg in Hamrun, Malta.[3] He began his education in Hamrun, completing undergraduate work and a master's degree at the University of Malta. He earned a second bachelor's 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] 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 in 2011, ran for the Democratic nomination as presidential candidate in the 2020 election, and became the Secretary of Transportation under the Biden administration. Pete said in his first 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 Marxist philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, published from 1992 to 2007 with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society, founded to facilitate communication among those who study Gramsci.[9] Buttigieg also served as chair of the English Department at Notre Dame and was promoted to William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English. He took emeritus status upon retiring in 2017.[10] He died on January 27, 2019.[11]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Luperini . Romano . 1997 . Otto Tesi Sull'attualità di Gramsci . Belfagor . 52 . 6 . 715–720 . 26147966.
  2. Web site: El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas on February 10, 1980 . 435883803 . Newspapers.com . 10 February 1980 . mdy-all . September 20, 2019 . June 24, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190624013758/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/435883803/ . live .
  3. News: South Bend Tribune . Obituaries . Joseph A. Buttigieg . South Bend, Indiana . January 27, 2019 . mdy-all . February 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190213005528/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southbendtribune/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-a-buttigieg&pid=191400113&fhid=7050 . live .
  4. Web site: Was Pete Buttigieg's Father a Marxist Who Spoke Fondly of 'Communist Manifesto'? . MacGuill . Dan . Feb 10, 2020 . Snopes . Snopes Media Group Inc. . August 29, 2023.
  5. News: 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 . January 27, 2019 . mdy-all . January 28, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190128051246/https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/it-s-been-a-good-trip-father-of-mayor-pete/article_9ef0258f-2f61-5ca0-b42a-1b5c72d1000b.html . live .
  6. News: Fuller . Jaime . The most interesting mayor you've never heard of . 27 January 2019 . Washington Post . March 10, 2014 . en . mdy-all . 6 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203418/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/the-most-interesting-mayor-youve-never-heard-of/ . live .
  7. News: Professor reflects on son's mayoral victory . 27 January 2019 . The Observer . 10 November 2011 . mdy-all . 28 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190128135230/https://ndsmcobserver.com/2011/11/professor-reflects-on-sons-mayoral-victory/ . live .
  8. Web site: Joseph A. Buttigieg // Department of English . english.nd.edu . University of Notre Dame . 27 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190413154209/https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/buttigieg/ . 13 April 2019 . dead . mdy-all.
  9. Web site: Buttigieg . University profile . https://web.archive.org/web/20190413154209/https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/buttigieg/ . 2019-04-13 . mdy-all.
  10. University of Notre Dame . Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program to seek new director to replace retiring Joseph Buttigieg . 27 January 2019 . Notre Dame News . December 15, 2016 . en . mdy-all . 1 January 2020 . https://archive.today/20200101183452/https://news.nd.edu/news/hesburgh-yusko-scholars-program-to-seek-new-director-to-replace-retiring-joseph-buttigieg/ . live .
  11. Web site: Mayor Pete Buttigieg mourns father's passing . Flake . Marie . January 27, 2019 . ABC57 . en . 2019-01-28 . mdy-all . 2019-01-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190128083313/https://www.abc57.com/news/mayor-pete-buttigieg-mourns-father-s-passing . live .
  12. Leitch . Vincent B. . Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies, and: Criticism without Boundaries: Directions and Crosscurrents in Postmodern Critical Theory (review) . MFS Modern Fiction Studies . 1988 . 34 . 2 . 319–321 . 10.1353/mfs.0.0707 . 143633192 . en . 1080-658X.
  13. Bennett . James R. . After and beyond "new criticism" . Style . Winter 1992 . 26 . 4 . 678–686 . 42946012.
  14. Feshbach . Sidney . Reviewed Work: A Portrait of the Artist in different perspective by Joseph A. Buttigieg . James Joyce Quarterly . Spring 1988 . 25 . 3 . 385–391 . 25484891.
  15. Yip . Kwok Hung . Book reviews . International Journal of Lifelong Education . September 2003 . 22 . 5 . 542–554 . 10.1080/0260137032000102878. 218497432 .
  16. Harper . William A. . 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 . 1 January 2004 . 46 . 1 . 143–144 . 10.1093/jcs/46.1.143 . en . 0021-969X . mdy-all.
  17. Deacon . Roger . Gramsci, Antonio. "Prison Notebooks", Volume II, edited and translated by Joseph E. Buttigieg (Book Review) - ProQuest . Theoria . December 1, 1998 . 92 . 163 . 27 January 2019 . en . mdy-all . 1 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200101132602/https://search.proquest.com/openview/ec425b9c65ba2fe4c60c65a8dedcf1e2/1?cbl=1821907&pq-origsite=gscholar . live .
  18. Spanos . William V. . Cuvier's Little Bone: Joseph Buttigieg's English Edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks . Rethinking Marxism . January 2006 . 18 . 1 . 23–36 . 10.1080/08935690500410593. 145511902 .

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