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| Research Interests for Joseph A. PorterResearch Interests: Renaissance Literature; Creative WritingAuthor of ten 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.
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