Publications of Joseph A. (aka Joe Ashby) Porter :chronological combined bibtex listing:
Books
- All Aboard: Stories. Turtle Point Press, 2008.
- The Near Future. (novel), Turtle Point Press, 2006.
- Touch Wood: Short Stories. Turtle Point Press, 2002.
- Resident Aliens (novel). New Amsterdam/Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
- Lithuania: Short Stories. Johns Hopkins UP, 1990.
- Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama. UNC Press, 1989.
- The Kentucky Stories. Johns Hopkins UP, 1983.
- The Drama of Speech Acts: Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy. U of California P, 1979.
- Eelgrass (novel). New Directions, 1977.
Edited
- Joseph A. Porter, ed.. Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1997.
- Renaissance Papers 1990. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1991.
- Renaissance Papers 1989. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1990.
- Renaissance Papers 1988. Southeasteern Renaissance Conference, 1989.
- Renaissance Papers 1987. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1988.
- Renaissance Papers 1986. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1987.
- Renaissance Papers 1985. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1986.
- Renaissance Papers 1984. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1985.
- Joseph A. Porter, co-editor. Renaissance Papers 1983. Southeastern Renaissance Conference, yearly 1984-1991
- Joe Ashby Porter, Contributing Editor. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses,18-. 1980-present
- Joe Ashby Porter, Fiction Editor. Crazyhorse (1979-80). 18-21 1979-80
Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books
- "Eloquence and Liminality (repr. from Shakespeare's Mercutio)." Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 118. Gale, February, 2009.
- "Mercury." Entry in Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Ed. Patricia Parker. forthcoming 2009.
- "Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality (2nd repr.)." Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Ed. James E. Hall. 2005 [2001].
- "Revisiting Shakespeare's Eliot." Renaissance Papers 2004 (2005)
- with Jerry Oster. "Joseph A. Porter/Joe Ashby Porter." Duke Arts and Sciences News (2004)
- "from Shakespeare's Mercutio." Shakespearean Criticism 68Detroit: Gale Research, (2002)
- "Multiple Identities." Duke Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 2001)
- "Eloquence and Liminality: Glossing Mercutio's Speech Acts." Romeo and Juliet: New Casebooks. Ed. R.S. White. Palgrave, 2001. Reprinted from Shakespeare's Mercutio
- "The Wild Goose Chase: Teaching Metaphor in Romeo and Juliet." Approaches to Teaching Romeo and Juliet. Ed. M. Hunt. Modern Language Association of America, 2000.
- "Belleforest's 'Vn esclaue More' and Othello." Shakespeare Quarterly 47.2 (1996)
- "A Calling." Duke University Libraries (repr. in Journal of Kentucky Studies, 1995) 8.2 (1996)
- "Puzzling Marston and Homer: (A Response to Brownell Salomon and W. E. Slights)." Connotations 2.1 (1992)
- "Character and Ideology in Shakespeare." Shakespeare Left and Right. Ed. Ivo Kamps. New York: Routledge, 1991.
- "Complement Extern: Iago's Speech Acts." Othello: New Perspectives. Ed. Virginia Vaughan. Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson UP, 1991.
- "Symposium: Contemporary American Fiction (rev.)." Writers and Their Craft: Short Stories and Essays on the Narrative. Ed. Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein. Detroit: Wayne State, 1991.
- "Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality." Displacing Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture. Ed. Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, and Michael Moon. Durham: Duke UP, 1989. repr.,
- "Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality." South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 (1989)
- "Fraternal Pragmatics: Speech Acts of John and the Bastard." King John: New Perspectives. Ed. Deborah Curren Aquino. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1988.
- "Symposium: Contemporary American Fiction." Michigan Quarterly Review (1987-88)
- "More Echoes from Eliot's Ortho-epia Gallica, in Lear and Henry V." Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986)
- "Pragmatics for Criticism: Two Generations of Speech Act Theory." Poetics 15.3 (1986)
- "From 1 Henry IV [in The Drama of Speech Acts]." Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.
- "Mercutio's Brother." South Atlantic Review 49.4 (1984)
Short Stories
- "Now This." Fence (2009).
- "Now This, repr." Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers (UNC Press, 2009).
- "Dream On." Golden Handcuffs Review I.10 (2008).
- "Nadine, repr., with new preface." New Madrid (2007).
- "Solstice." Michigan Quarterly Review (2006).
- "Merrymount." Yale Review (2006).
- "Mr. Seguin's Goat: Reverse Translation from Daudet, _Lettres de mon moulin_." Golden Handcuffs Review (2005).
- "Manatee, excerpt from _The Near Future_." Golden Handcuffs Review (2005).
- "Reunion Eve." Golden Handcuffs Review (2005).
- "Bowling Green, repr." The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State. Ed. Wade Hall. (U. Press of KY, 2005).
- "Tamiami Trail, excerpt from _The Near Future_." English Studies Forum (online) (2005).
- "West Baltimore, repr." So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series. Ed. John T. Irwin and Jean McGarry. (Johns Hopkins Universisty Press, 2005).
- "Pending." Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly (2004).
- "A Man Wanted to Buy a Cat." Kenyon Review (2002).
- "Yours." Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories (Lexington: U Kentucky P, 2001).
- "Icehouse Burgess." Yale Review (July, 2000).
- "Touch Wood." Carolina Quarterly (1998).
- "Naufrage and Diapason." Voices from Home: The North Carolina Prose Anthology (Greensboro, NC: Avisson, 1997). (Originally appeared in Fiction, 1995.)
- "In the Mind." The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the NC Museum of Art's 50th Anniversary (Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1997).
- "Bone Key." Yale Review (1996).
- "An Errand." Fiction International (1994).
- "Attention, Shoppers." Witness (1990).
- "Playing for Keeps." New American Writing (1990).
- "Retrieval." Raritan (1988).
- "Aerial View." The Louisville Review (1987).
- "St. Silvere's Head (version two)." Confrontation - Southern Writing Issue (1987).
- "St. Silvere's Head (version one)." Archive - Centennial Issue (1987).
- "The Tunnel." Journal of Kentucky Studies (1986).
- "Hillcrest Days." Cardinal (1986).
- "West Baltimore." The American Voice (1985).
- "The Supermarket." The Minnesota Review (1984).
- "Duckwalking." The Pushcart Prize IX: Best of the Small Presses (1984). (Also reproduced in Harper's, 1984; originally appeared in Contemporary American Fiction, 1983.)
- "Troth." New Directions 47 (1983).
- "How He Met the Celebrities." Northwest Review (1983).
- "Nadine." Ploughshares (1983).
- "Yours." Antaeus (1982).
- "Marthe Grosjean." Tobacco Road (1980).
- Joe Ashby Porter, co-author. "Manuela Fuentes." Aspen Anthology (1980).
- "In the Mind's Eye." New Directions 39 (1979).
- "Sweetness: a Thinking Machine." The Pushcart Prize IV: Best of the Small Presses (1979). (Originally appeared in Sun and Moon, 1978.)
- "The Tunnel." WIND (1978).
- "A Child of the Heart." TriQuarterly (1978).
- "For Nineteen Sixty-eight." The Iowa Review (1977).
- "T as in Thiladelthia." Via (1976).
- "Bowling Green." Antaeus (1975).
- "Beans." Fiction (1973).
- "The Vacation." The Best American Short Stories (1972). (Originally appeared in Occident, 1971.)
Book Reviews
- Review of Toby Olson, _Tampico_. Golden Handcuffs Review (2009).
- Review of Ben Fountain, _Close Encounters with Che Guevara_. Duke Magazine (July-August 2008).
- Review of Ben Fountain's _Brief Encounters With Che Guevara_. Duke Magazine (July/August 2007).
- Review of Andre Brink's Destabilizing Shakespeare. Shakespeare Quarterly (1998).
- Renaissance Sexuality and Text: Three Studies. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 33 (1993). (Review of Gregory W. Bredbeck's Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton; Mary Beth Rose's, The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; and Bruce R. Smith's Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics)
- Review of Ekbert Faas's Shakespeare's Poetics. (Cambridge UP, 1988), Renaissance Quarterly 40.2 (1987).
- Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse. (Cambridge UP, 1984), Shakespeare Quarterly 36.4 (1985).
- Review of Hayden Carruth's Working Papers. South Atlantic Quarterly 82.2 (1983).
- Review of John Ashbery's Shadow Train. Louisville Courier-Journal (14 June 1981).
- Review of Eileen Jorge Allman's Player-King and Adversary. South Atlantic Quarterly 80.2 (1981).
- Review of Alan Sillitoe's The Second Chance. Louisville Courier-Journal (20 Sept. 1980).
- Review of Jonathan Baumbach's My Father More or Less; B. H. Friedman's Coming Close; Harold Jaffe's Mourning Crazy Horse. Louisville Courier-Journal (20 June 1980).
Other
- "Works in Progress." (). i. Renaissance Studies: Shakespearean Moorings. ii. Long and short works on characterology, dramatic speech acts, and cultural study; a longer work on "The Character of Speech Acts"; an article "Empirical Shakespeare"; shorter works on characterology, dramatic speech acts, pragmatics, and cultural study. iii. Long and short fiction, including "Deep France," a memoir.

