Porter, Joseph A., 1942-

American author and faculty member of English Department at Duke University.

From the description of Papers, 1962-1995. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34041056

• 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.
• 1995: Resident Aliens, a forthcoming novel, New Amsterdam Press.

Joe Ashby Porter is a writer and is a member of the English Department faculty at Duke University. He also has lived in England, North Africa, and France. He has written several novels and scholarly studies, and has 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 has also been anthologized in Contemporary American Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and New Directions: An International Anthology.

From the guide to the Joseph Ashby Porter Papers, 1962-1995, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)