Joseph A. (aka Joe Ashby) Porter Professor Of English and Theater Studies
Office Location: 304J/K Allen
Office Phone: (919) 684-3884
Email Address: japorter@duke.edu
Teaching (Fall, 2009):
- English 109s.01, Special topics writing
Synopsis
- Allen 317, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- English 143.01, Shakespeare before 1600
Synopsis
- Allen 304i, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- Renaissance Literature; Creative Writing
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Author of eight books and editor or co-editor of nine others, as well as the New Variorum Othello in progress, of which he is Editor-in-Chief, Joseph A. Porter aka Joe
Ashby Porter studied at Harvard (BA, 1964), Pembroke
College Oxford (Fulbright Fellowship, 64-65) and UC
Berkeley (PhD, 1972). After teaching full time at U. VA.
and part-time at three other institutions, in 1980 he
came to Duke, where he is now Professor of English and of Theater Studies. He has
served as Visiting Professor at the Université François
Rabelais in Tours, France, and as Writer in Residence
at Brown, and he has twice served as Instructor at the
Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Shakespearean Joseph A. Porter's books are The Drama of Speech Acts and Shakespeare's Mercutio, his edited Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and his eight co-edited volumes of Renaissance Papers. His primary works in progress are the MLA New Variorum Othello, and Shakespearean Moorings, a cultural study of Othello. His awards include the NEH Folger Institute Fellowship.
Fiction writer Joe Ashby Porter's books are the novels Eelgrass, Resident Aliens, and The Near Future, and the collections The Kentucky Stories, Lithuania: Short Stories and Touch Wood: Short Stories. His work in progress includes a collection of short stories, a novel, and a memoir. His awards include two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, and a 2004 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Literature.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "Eloquence and Liminality (repr. from Shakespeare's Mercutio)." Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 118. Gale, February, 2009.
- "Now This." Fence (2009).
- Review of Toby Olson, _Tampico_. Golden Handcuffs Review (2009).
- Review of Ben Fountain, _Close Encounters with Che Guevara_. Duke Magazine (July-August 2008).
- "Now This, repr." Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers (UNC Press, 2009).
