Joseph A. Buttigieg, theWilliam R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Director, Ph.D. in Literature Program, has been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1980. He served as chair of the English department from 1987 to 1992 and has been a Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies since its inception. A native of the Mediterranean island of Malta, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from the University of Malta. Professor Buttigieg also studied philosophy at Heythrop College, where he obtained a B.Phil. He came to the United States in 1972 and earned his doctoral degree in English literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A specialist in modern literature and critical theory, his more recent work has focused on the relationship between culture and politics in 20th-century Europe.  In addition to numerous articles, Professor 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, Portuguese and Japanese, and he has lectured widely in the United States and Europe as well as in Mexico, Brazil, Tunisia, South Africa and Japan. 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. He also serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various journals and is a member of the editorial collective of Boundary 2. 

Margaret Doody's areas of expertise are Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature and the Novel. Her recent publications include: The True Story of the Novel (an exploration of the history of the Novel from antiquity to the present day); editions of Frances Burney's Evelina, Jane Austen's Catharine and Other Early Writings, and Anne of Green Gables (The Annotated Anne); an article on "The Infant Samuel and Infant Piety" in Out of the Garden; "Gender, Literature and Gendering Literature" in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740; numerous reviews in London Review of Books and TLS. Her mystery novel, Aristotle Detective, has just been republished and has also been translated into Italian. She is currently working on two non-fiction books, one on Apuleius and one on Venice.

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Collin Meissner’s areas of expertise are in prose narrative and the novel. His recent publications include Henry James and the Language of Experience (an examination of Jamesian aesthetics showing how the process of consciousness in James is an inherently political act that requires an active engagement with social reality); articles on James and material culture (“What Ghosts Will Be Left To Walk” HJR,), and several articles on Jamesian hermeneutics (“Lambert Strether and the Negativity of Experience,” Studies in the Novel). Two current book length projects include, “Reading and the Public Sphere,” (a wide-ranging study of the novelistic imagination as it develops through the collisions and interconnections between the classic and modern worlds, theological and philosophical texts, and literary and visual arts. Click here for sample); “‘the awful modern crush’: Capital Crimes in Henry James” (an examination of the late James’s focus on the consequences of commercial over determination in 20th-century America. Click here for a sample).

Teaching Arabic Literature in the World Literautre Course

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Islam and Islamic civilization
· Arabic language and literature

Areas of Recent Research
· Early religious and political history and thought of Islam
· Qur'an and hadith studies

Professor Asma Afsaruddin
Associate Professor of Classics
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Recent Honors and Awards
· Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant, 2003-04.
· Editorial Board of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, part of the Enclyclopeidas of the Middle Ages series, forthcoming from Routledge.
· Fellow at the American Research Center of Cairo, 1999-2000
· Center for Arabic study abroad fellow, 1999
· Research grant from the American research Institute of Turkey, 1998

Recent Publications
· "The Excellence of the Qur'an: Textual Sacrality and the Organization of Early Islamic Society," Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 1 (2002): 1-24.
· Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership (Leiden, 2002)
· Editor, Hermeneutics and Honor. Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies (Cambridge, Mass, 1999)
· "In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Constructing History from the Manaqib Literature," International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999): 329-50

I spent the past academic year on sabbatical in London and Cairo. In the fall, I was a visiting scholar at the Centre of Islamic Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I gave invited presentations on topics as diverse as concepts of legitimate leadership and political authority within Islam, depictions of medieval women scholars in Arabic biographical literature, and the nature of jihad at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, the Institute of Isma'ili Studies in London, the University of Leeds, Michigan State University, East Lansing, and the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.

I am currently working on two monographs, one dealing with the early history of Muslims and the other with the changing perspectives on jihad and martyrdom in Islamic thought. I continue to serve on the editorial boards of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilizations (Routledge, forthcoming) and the Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Joseph Amar
Degree: PhD in Syriac and Arabic, Catholic University of America, 1988
Special Areas: Syriac and Christian Arabic literature; Syriac liturgy

Professor Amar teaches and writes on the interplay between Christianity and Islam in the Middle East. His current research involves the editing of a manuscript by the medieval Syrian bishop and scholar, Dionysius Bar Salibi, that is titled "A Response to Muslims," for which he won a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (2000). Professor Amar also oversees the teaching of Christian Aramaic known as Syriac. He is currently teaching a new course he has developed "History of Christianity in the Middle East."

Prof. Bloomer teaches both Greek and Latin literature.  He publishes especially on Roman literary history, including a study of Valerius Maximus (Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility, Chapel Hill, 1992) and  a study on the claims of literary discourse to fashion a society of its own (Latinity and Literary Society at Rome, Philadelphia: 1997).  He is currently finishing for Princeton University Press a volume that explores the creation of ancient literary subjectivity through Roman educational practices.

Interests: Greek and Roman social and cultural history.

Publications: Major publications: Suetonius' Life of Nero: An Historical Commentary (Brussels, 1978); Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire (New York & Oxford, 1986); Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World (Bloomington & London, 1989, 1998); Discovering the Roman Family (New York & Oxford, 1991); Slavery and Society at Rome (Cambridge, 1994); Contributor: Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Oxford Classical Dictionary (3); A Historical Guide to World Slavery (ed. S. Engerman & S. Drescher, New York, 1998); author of over one hundred and twenty articles, essays and reviews.

Distinctions: Research Fellow, Australian National University (1988); Co-editor, EMC/CV 1990-95; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1993); Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1994; Canada Council Killam Research Fellow (1996-98); Director, American Philological Association (1996-99); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1996); listed in Who's Who in Canada.

Memberships: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, American Philological Association, Classical Association of Canada, Society for Libyan Studies.

Professor and Vice Chair; Director of Graduate Studies; Director of the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies

Professor Cachey's research focuses on Italian literary history and historiography of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in particular Dante, Petrarch, the "Questione della lingua" and the literature and history of travel. He is the author of Le isole fortunate: appunti di storia letteraria italiana (Rome: L'erma di Bretschneider, 1995); editor and translator of A. Pigafetta's The First Voyage Around the World (New York: Marsilio, 1995); and the editor of Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies (Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 1995). His recent book, Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2002) won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize for a manuscript in Italian Studies awarded by the Modern Languages Association in 2002. He is also co-editor, with Zygmunt G. Baranski of two forthcoming volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Literature of the Thirteenth Century and Italian Literature of the Fourteenth Century.

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

* "The End of the Journey: From Gilgamesh to Le città invisibili," Annali d'italianistica 21 (2003), pp. 71-91.

* "Petrarchan Cartographic Writing." Medieval and Renaissance Humanism. Rhetoric, Representation and Reform. Edited by Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest. Brill, 2003, pp. 73-89.

* "Italy and the Invention of America."
The New Centennial Review.
Early Modernities. 2.1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 17-31.

Professor Douthwaite focuses on 18th- and early 19th-century French literature, the French Revolution, women's writing, intersections between literature and science, and Franco-English literary relations. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lilly Endowment. She is the author of Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Régime France (1992) and co-editor (with David Lee Rubin) of the special two-volume issue of EMF: Studies in Early Modern France on "Cultural Studies" that will be published in 2001. She is also the author of the introduction to the special number: "Introduction: Cultural Studies and the Crisis in French." Professor Douthwaite's article, "Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the `Wild Girl of Champagne'," won the 1995 Clifford Prize for the Best Article on an 18th-century topic, from the American Society for 18th-Century Studies. Her most recent work is a book entitled The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Recent publications include:

• "Seeing and Being Seen: Visual Codes and Metaphors in The Princess of Cleves." In Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's The Princess of Cleves, ed. Faith E. Beasley and Katharine Ann Jensen. MLA Publications, 1998. 109-119. 
• "Le Paradoxe de la féminité naturelle: Marie-Angélique, Sophie, et Nell." In Sexualité, mariage, et famille au 18e siècle, ed. Olga Cragg and Rosena Davison. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1998. 159-172. 
• "Private Life in the Public Eye: Rousseau's Autobiography and 18th-century Painting." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 358 (1998): 135-160. 
• "Experimental Childrearing After Rousseau: Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education, and Belinda." Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 2: 2 (December 1997): 35-56. 
• "Homo ferus: Between Monster and Model." In Faces of Monstrosity in 18th-century Thought. Ed. Andrew Curran, Robert P. Maccubbin, and David F. Morrill. Special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life 20: 2 (May 1997): 176-202. 
• "Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the `Wild Girl of Champagne'." Eighteenth-Century Studies 28: 2 (Winter 1994-95): 163-92. 

Christopher Fox's area of expertise is in the field of 18th-century British literature and science. He works on the interrelations of literature and the emerging human sciences, especially psychology and medicine, in the 18th century. He is the author of Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain. He is currently writing a book on Swift. He has also edited Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Gulliver's Travels: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, with Roy Porter and Robert Wokler; Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains; and Walking Nabob's Garden: New Studies of Swift. He has been an ACLS fellow.

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He has lectured in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe, North America, and Australia. His academic interests include a wide variety of scholarly issues, ranging from film and literature to the visual arts, questions of aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and contemporary debates on post-colonialism. He is the author of Transformations in Irish Culture (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), co-author of the pioneering book, Cinema in Ireland (Routledge, 1988), and a contributing editor of the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, edited by Seamus Deane (Norton/Field Day, 1991). He is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in Irish and international journals such as The South Atlantic Quarterly, Artforum, Cultural Studies, The Oxford Literary Review, Eire-Ireland, The Irish Literary Supplement, and History Ireland. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation, and is a consultant editor to the new Routledge review of post-colonial studies, Interventions. His new book, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. He is currently preparing three other books for publication, The Quiet Man (Cork University press, 2002), and two co-edited works, Re-inventing Ireland: Culture and the Celtic Tiger (Pluto Press, 2002), and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Irish Culture (Routledge, 2002).

Breandán Ó Buachalla, Thomas J. and Kathleen O'Donnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature

Breandán Ó Buachalla is the first Thomas J. and Kathleen O’Donnell Chair in Irish Language and Literature. Breandán is a former Professor of Modern Irish in University College Dublin (1978-1996) and Professor of Irish in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1973-1978). He has held the Parnell Fellowship at Cambridge University and visiting Professorships at Notre Dame, New York University and Boston College. The leading authority on the literature and ideology of early modern Ireland, he has published extensively on the impact of the Counter-Reformation on Irish political thought, early modern historiography and the cult of the Stuarts in Irish literature. His Aisling Ghéar: Na Stíobhartaigh agus an tAos Léinn, 1603-1788 (An Clóchomhar, 1996) is a monumental study of Irish political poetry in the period 1603-1788 and comprises the first comprehensive analysis of Irish Jacobitism. He is also the author of I mBéal Feirste Cois Cuain (An Clóchomhar, 1968, 1978), an award-winning study of scribal and antiquarian circles in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Belfast, and An Caoine agus an Chaointeoireacht (Cois Life, 1998), a radical reappraisal of the literature of lament in modern Irish. He has edited Peadar Ó Doirnín: Amhráin (An Clóchomhar, 1969) and Cathal Buí: Amhráin (An Clóchomhar, 1975), definitive collections of verse by two eighteenth century poets, and is also co-editor (with Pádraig de Brún, and Tomás Ó Concheanainn) of Nua Dhuanaire I, II (Institiúid Ard-Léinn, 1971, 1976), landmark anthologies of early modern verse. Besides cultural studies, literature and politics, he has published extensively in the field of linguistics; his most recent book is An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Chléire (Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, 2003), an analysis of the dialect of Irish spoken in Cape Clear, west Cork.

Telephone Fall Semester (574) 631-5122; Spring Semester, Ireland (01) 418-9170
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E-mail o'buachalla.2@nd.edu

His main teaching and research interests are in ancient philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Professor O'Connor recently edited and introduced The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation, and is working on the relationship between skepticism and Platonism in Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. He is also co-editing and contributing to a forthcoming volume of new essays on the history and contemporary relevance of the notion of natural law. Professor O'Connor is co-director of the undergraduate program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), and also regularly teaches in the Philosophy and Literature program. His recent graduate courses: "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics," "Interpretation in Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer," "Nietzsche and the Greeks," "Shakespeare and the Origins of Philosophy, " "Socrates and the Fall of Athens."

Selected Bibliography:

Books:
The Law of Nature, edited by Hindy Najman, David K. O'Connor, and Gregory Sterling, forthcoming.
The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation, edited and introduced by David K. O'Connor (2002).
Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, edited by Carnes Lord and David K. O'Connor (1991).

Essays:
"Leo Strauss's Aristotle and Martin Heidegger's Politics," in Aristotle and Modern Politics, edited by Aristide Tessitore (2002).
"The Seductions of Socrates," First Things (2001).
"Socrates and Political Ambition: The Dangerous Game" in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (1998).