Professor Daniel Massa M.A.,Ph.D.(Edin.)
Office: Old Humanities Building, Room 317
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Professor Daniel Massa holds BA Hons and MA Degrees from the University of Malta and Ph.D. from Edinburgh University, Scotland. His tenure at the University of Malta has included appointments as Head of Department of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. From 1982, he was Maître des Conferences at the National University of the Ivory Coast. From 1984 to 1985 he was Scholar in Residence at Michigan State University. Returning to Malta, he was appointed Director of the Communication Programme and the Centre for Distance Learning, as well as Coordinator of the American Studies Programme.
Posts Held Head, Department of English, University of Malta
Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
Director, Centre for Distance Learning
Director, Communication Studies
Co-ordinator, American Studies Programme
Senate Member, University of Malta
Council Member, University of Malta
Member, Mediterranean Institute
Co-ordinator Languages, Mediterranean Academy Diplomatic Studies
Chairman, M.Phil and Ph.D. Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
Member, M.Phil. and Ph.D. Regulations Committee, University of Malta
Editorships Regional Editor, Encyclopaedia of Commonwealth Literature (Routledge)
Consultant Editor, World Literature in English WLWE (University of Toronto Press)
Consultant Editor, The Commonwealth Novel (University of Texas at Arlington)
Editor, Journal in Mediterranean Studies (University of Malta)
Editor, Journal of Mediterranean Studies (University of Malta)
Chairman, Editorial Board, University of Malta
Adjudicating Panel: Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1985) - Commonwealth Foundation
Pan-Commonwealth, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2005) - Commonwealth Foundation
Fellowships Senior Fellow, Association of Commonwealth Universities (1990)
Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (1988)
Fulbright Fellowship, Communication Studies, Michigan State University (1984-1985)
Mâitre des Conferences, National University of the Ivory Coast (1982)
Commonwealth Senior Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford University (1980)
Main Teaching And Current Research Areas Seventeenth and eighteenth century English literature
Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists
Renaissance Humanism
The Commonwealth
Supervised and Examined Ph.D. Topics Film and literature
Myth and History in West African Literature
Freud, Lacan and D.H.Lawrence
Negotiation Theory
Selected Publications Kwartett (1966)
Analiżi 70 (1970)
Limestone '84 (1978)
‘The Topsail Experiment’, Annals of Science, 30.2 (1973), 201-212.
‘Conversations with Writers: Daniel Massa’, British Council Recordings I (1975).
‘The Writer in Exile’, in Commonwealth Writer Overseas, ed. Alastair Niven (Didier, 1976).
‘Giordano Bruno's Ideas in Seventeenth-Century England’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 38.2 (1977), 227-243.
Across Cultures (University of Malta, 1977).
‘Cross-Cultural Dependence’, Awakened Conscience, ed. C.D. Narasimhaiah (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers,1978), 13-27.
Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature, (ACLALS 1979).
‘Introduction to Maltese Poetry’, Commonwealth Quarterly, 7 (1978) 11-27.
Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (London: Longman, 1980)
‘The Hero in Contemporary Fiction’, Association of Commonwealth Literature (1980), 122-37.
‘The Post-Colonial Dream’, WLWE, 20.1 (1981), 131-149.
George Orwell: Myths and Realities (Malta: University of Malta Press, 1984).
Xibkatuliss (1989).
‘Sir Philip Sidney and Giordano Bruno’, Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, 6 (2001) 61-85.
Dgħajsa Karti, ed. (University of Malta, 2001).
PSI: The Life, Thought and Adventures of a European Intellectual, (2008).
