Professor Norbert Bugeja is a member of the Department of English within the Faculty of Arts, Director of the Mediterranean Institute and General Editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies. He has published extensively in the fields of memoir studies and life writing, postcolonial, critical and cultural theory, Anglophone literatures of the Mediterranean and cultural politics in the MENA. Bugeja was formerly a member of the International Advisory Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation, and is considered one of Malta’s foremost contemporary writers.
Prof. Bugeja is the author of Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East (Routledge, 2012), a major contribution in the field, and the poetry collection Oublie qu’elle n'est pas là, (2023, transl. Irene Mangion), published by leading French poetry house Les Presses du Réel — Al Dante, a volume that has charted new pathways in the international reach of Malta’s poetry. He has authored many book chapters and articles in key international publications, and has guest-edited the ‘Postcolonial Springs’ (1.1, 2015) and the ‘Afterward/Afterword’ special issues (4.2, 2018) of CounterText (Edinburgh UP).
He has delivered keynotes and invited lectures and presentations at King’s College London (UK), Dartmouth College (US), the universities of Northampton (UK), Cambridge (UK), Kent (UK), Padua, Toronto, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and several other universities in the UK, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He is an advisory editor and regular reviewer for numerous high-profile international publishers, journals and scholarly publications.
Bugeja’s poems have been published in various international literature magazines and he has recited his poetry at principal literary festivals and events in Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and North Africa. The Arabic edition of his poems appeared in 2023 from major publisher Editions Arabesques — Sheen, and his various poetry collections have repeatedly been shortlisted for the National Book Prize.
In 2011, Prof. Bugeja was awarded a PhD summa cum laude in English and Comparative Literary Studies by the University of Warwick, where he pursued his doctoral studies as a recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship.
