Buttigieg taught at
New Mexico State University at
Las Cruces starting in 1976 and there met Jennifer Anne Montgomery, also a new faculty member.[5] In 1980, they married and also joined the faculty of Notre Dame.[5][9]
Buttigieg specialized in modern European literature and
theory.[11] He was translator and editor of the three-volume English edition of Marxist philosopher
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, published from 1992 to 2007 with support from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.[12] He was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society, founded to facilitate communication between those who study Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci,[13] one-time leader of the
Communist Party of Italy. Buttigieg also served as chair of the English Department at Notre Dame and was promoted to
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English.[8] He took
emeritus status upon retiring in 2017.[8] He died on January 27, 2019.[14]
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