Joseph Ashby Porter papers, 1962-2019

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Summary

Creator:
Porter, Joseph Ashby, 1942-
Abstract:
Joe Ashby Porter (1942-2019) was a writer who also taught in the English and Theater Studies departments 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.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet
42 Items
Language:
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 70 notebooks with Porter's creative writing, including the manuscript draft of his first published novel Eelgrass.. Also included are research materials and notes for his scholarly monographs on Shakespeare and publications on Renaissance literature. The collection his friends and colleagues as well as Porter's preparation notes for Duke University Writers' Conference in 1980s. Also included a number of periodicals containing Porter's short fiction.

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.

Joe Ashby Porter (1942-2019) was a writer who also taught in the English and Theater Studies departments 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, andSun 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.

Accession 2022-0175 were given by partner of creator Yves Orvoen.

Processing information:

Processed by: Paula Jeannet

Completed December 7, 1995

Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller

Accession 2022-0175 processed and described by Vladimir Lukin, December 2022

Arrangement:

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

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Certain restrictions apply to patron wishing to use this collection: published works may be photocopied; the draft of the unpublished novel Let's Hide Our Eyes Then, may not be photocopied; however, up to 10% of any other item, including literary manuscripts, drafts, and proofs of published works may be photocopied. Any further extensive photocopying, or photocopying from materials other than listed above, or phocopying for any purposes other than private research and study will require the donor's permission.

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