Peter Ives
Associate Professor
Department of Political Sciences
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Peter Ives was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He received his B.A. (1991) in Political Science from Reed College in Portland, Oregon writing an undergraduate thesis on the Icelandic Women's Alliance. He completed his M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) at York University, Toronto, in the Graduate Programme of Social & Political Thought. He has taught at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the University of Manitoba. Professor Ives' research interests include the role of language in political and democratic theory, cultural studies, Marxisms, critical theory and feminism. His first book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School (University of Toronto Press, 2004), won the Raymond Klibansky award in 2004-5. He has also written an introduction to Gramsci's political and cultural theory, Language and Hegemony in Gramsci (Pluto Press/ Fernwood, 2004). Most recently, he has co-edited (with Rocco Lacorte), Gramsci, Language and Translation (Lexington, 2010). This volume brings together translations of articles mostly originally in Italian and recent developments in research on Gramsci.
Research Interest
Peter Ives research interest includes social sciences (Political Theory/Political Philosophy/History of Political Thought/Feminism).
