Joseph Ashby Porter papers, 1962-2024

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Summary

Creator:
Porter, Joseph A., 1942-2019
Abstract:
Joseph Ashby Porter (1942-2019) was a writer and scholar who taught in the English and Theater Studies departments at Duke University and also participated in the university's creative writing program. The collection includes a range of materials related to his career as a writer and a professor of English literature such as drafts and research for his creative and scholarly writings, copies of his publications, notebooks and profoessional materials.
Extent:
13 Linear Feet
4.13 Megabytes
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.01038

Background

Scope and content:

The Joseph Ashby Porter papers include a range of materials related to his career as a writer and a professor of English literature. The collection contains notes, draft typescripts, and notebooks with Porter's creative writing as well as periodicals containing Porter's short fiction. Also included are research materials and notes for his scholarly monographs on Shakespeare and publications on Renaissance literature. The collection also holds Porter's correspondence, publicity materials for his publications and typescripts of creative writing written by Porter's friends and colleagues as well as Porter's preparation notes for Duke University Writers' Conference in the 1980s.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1942, July 21
Born in Kentucky.
1964
B.A., Harvard University
1964-1965
Fulbright grant, Pembroke College, Oxford.
1966
M.A., University of California, Berkeley.
1973
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
1970-1973
Assistant professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
1976-1977
Assistant professor of English, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.
1977
Published novel, Eelgrass, New Directions Press.
1977-1978
Assistant professor of English, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Wash.
1978-1980
Assistant professor of English, Murray State University, Murray, Ky.
1979
Published The Drama of Speech Acts: Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy, University of California Press.
1980-
Assistant professor of English, Duke University.
1983
Published The Kentucky Stories, Johns Hopkins University Press.
1984
Pulitzer Prize Nomination for The Kentucky Stories.
1989
Published Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama, University of North Carolina Press.
1990
Published Lithuania: Short Stories, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
2000
Resident Aliens, New Amsterdam Press.

Joseph Ashby Porter (1942-2019) was a writer who taught in the English and Theater Studies departments at Duke University and also participated in the university's creative writing program. He also lived in England, North Africa, and France where he served as a visiting professor at the Université François-Rabelais in Tours. He authored four short story collections, three novels, and two monogaphs on Shakespeare, and contributed many short stories and articles to periodicals and journals, including Antaeus,South Atlantic Review, Occident,Minnesota Review, Triquarterly, and Sun and Moon. His short fiction was anthologized in Contemporary American Fiction,The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and New Directions: An International Anthology.

Acquisition information:
The papers of Joseph Ashby Porter (1942-2019) were given as a gift to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library in 1995 by Joseph Ashby Porter, a faculty member of the English Department at Duke, and in 2020 and 2022 by Yves Orvoen.
Processing information:

Processed by: Paula Jeannet

Completed December 7, 1995

Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller

Accessions 2020-0047 and 2022-0175 processed and described by Vladimir Lukin, December 2022

Accessions 2023-0101, 2023-0178 and 2024-0129 added by Lisa Duncan, October 2024.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in the following series: Creative Writing, Scholarly Materials, Personal Materials, Notebooks, Publications.

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