JAMES
I. PORTER
Classical
Studies and Comparative Literature
2160
Angell Hall
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1003
734/936-6102 (office) 734/763-4959
(fax)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jport/
Education
Ph.D.
Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley.
Greek, Latin, and German (1986)
Eberhard-Karls-Universität,
Tübingen. Classics and Germanistik (1980-81)
M.A.
Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
(1979)
B.A.
Swarthmore College. Honors majors: History and Greek; minor: English
(1977)
Teaching
1982-1985:
Teaching Asssistant and Acting Instructor, Departments of Comparative Literature
and Classics, University of California, Berkeley
1986-1992:
Assistant Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, The
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1992-present: Associate Professor of
Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1996:
Visiting Associate Professor in Classics, Stanford University (Spring Term)
Academic Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (Tübingen)
1980-81
NEH
Fellowship for University Teachers
1988-89
NEH
Texts and Translation Grant
for collaborative text, translation, and commentary
(project: “The Aesthetic Writings of Philodemus”) 1992
Stanford
Humanities Center Fellowship
1995-96
Alexander
von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (F.U. Berlin)
1997-98
Dissertation
The
Material Sublime:
Towards a Reconstruction of Critical
Discourse and Aesthetics in Classical
Antiquity (University of California, Berkeley, 1986). Director: T. G.
Rosenmeyer. Council of Graduate
Schools/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award for Best Dissertation in the
Humanities from 1986-88.
The
Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on The Birth of Tragedy
(Stanford
University Press, 2000)
Nietzsche
and the Philology of the Future
(Stanford University Press, 2000 [in press])
The
Material Sublime:
Aesthetic Inquiry in Classical Antiquity
(under contract with UC Press, Hellenistic Culture and Society series; in
progress)
Philodemus,
On Poems 5 (Clarendon Press),
ed. David Armstrong and James I. Porter. Critical edition and translation, with facing text, notes,
and introductory materials (in progress)
The
Seductions of Metaphysics:
Nietzsche’s Final Philosophy
(in progress)
On
Longinus (in
progress)
Writing
the Void: Notions of Emptiness in Classical Literature
(in progress)
Foundational
Essays of Modernity: Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Barthes (study
on modernism and the essay form; planned)
Collections
Constructions
of the Classical Body,
ed. James I. Porter. In The
Body, In Theory series, University of Michigan Press (1999)
Classical
Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greco-Roman Antiquity,
ed. James I. Porter (in progress)
Lacan
and the Classics,
ed. Mark Buchan and James I. Porter (in progress)
Karl
Marx and Classical Antiquity,
ed. Mark Buchan and James I. Porter (planned)
Friedrich
Nietzsche on the Classics
(planned)
Book Series
Co-editor,
with Dalia Judovitz (Emory University), The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism, a
book-series with The University of Michigan Press. 1990-
Articles
“Reading Representation in Franz Grillparzer’s Der
arme Spielmann,” Deutsche
Vierteljahrsschrift 55
(1981) 93-132.
—rpt.
with corrections, in Franz
Grillparzer’s Der arme Spielmann: New Critical Directions, ed.
Clifford Albrecht Bernd (Camden House, 1988) 133-63.
—rpt.,
2000. The Gale Group. Web-based collection on Grillparzer.
“Aristotle on Specular Regimes: The Theater of Philosophical
Discourse,” Pacific
Coast Philology v. 21,
nos. 1-2
(November 1986) 20-24.
“Saussure
and Derrida on the Figure of the Voice,” Modern
Language Notes, French
Centennial Issue, v. 101, no. 4 (September 1986) 871-894.
“Philo’s
Confusion of Tongues: Some Methodological Observations,” Quaderni
Urbinati di Cultura Classica,
N.S. 24, no. 3 (1986) 55-74.
“Resisting Aesthetics: Christa Wolf and Aeschylus,” in Responses
to Christa Wolf: Critical
Essays, ed. Marilyn
Fries (Wayne State Press, 1989) 378-94.
“Philodemus
on Material Difference,” Cronache
Ercolanesi 19 (1989)
149-78.
“Patterns of Perception in Aeschylus,” in The Cabinet of the Muses: Essays on
Classical and Comparative Literature in Honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer,
ed. Mark Griffith and Donald J. Mastronarde (Scholars Press 1990) 31-56.
“Hermeneutic Lines and Circles: Aristarchus and Crates on
Homeric Exegesis,” Homer's
Ancient Readers: The
Greek Epic’s Earliest Exegetes, ed. Robert Lamberton and John J.
Keaney (Princeton 1992) 67-114.
“Nietzsche’s
Atoms,” in Nietzsche und die antike Philosophie,
ed. Daniel W. Conway and Rudolf Rehn (Bochumer Altertumswissenschafliches
Colloquium, v. 11; Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 1992) 47-90.
“Helen and the Rape of Narrative: The Politics of
Dissuasion,” in Dialectic
and Narrative, ed. Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz
(SUNY Press, 1993) 22-42.
“The
Seductions of Gorgias,” Classical
Antiquity 12:2 (1993) 267-99.
“Nietzsche’s Rhetoric: Theory and Strategy,” Philosophy and Rhetoric,
special issue on Nietzsche and Rhetoric, ed. Daniel Conway 27:3 (Fall 1994)
218-44.
“Stoic
Morals and Poetics in Philodemus,” Cronache
Ercolanesi 24 (1994) 63-88.
“Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an
Evasion,” Philodemus
and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace,
ed. Dirk Obbink (Oxford, 1995) 97-147.
“Hoi
Kritikoi: A Reassessment,” Greek
Literary Theory after Aristotle: A Collection of Papers in Honour of D. M.
Schenkeveld, ed. J.G.J. Abbenes, S.R. Slings, I. Sluiter
(Amsterdam, 1995) 83-109.
“The
Invention of Dionysus and Platonic Midwifery: Nietzsche’s Birth
of Tragedy,” Journal of the History of Philosophy
33:3 (1995) 467-97.
“In
Search of an Epicurean Aesthetics,” in Epicureismo
Greco e Romano, ed. G. Giannantoni (Naples 1996) v. 2, pp. 613-30.
“The
Philosophy of Aristo of Chios,” in The
Cynics: The
Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy, ed. R. Bracht Branham and
M.-O. Goulet-Cazé (UC Press, 1996) pp. 156-89.
“Aristotle on Specular Regimes: The Theater of Philosophical
Discourse,” in Sites of Vision: The
Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy, ed.
David Levin (MIT Press, 1997) pp. 93-115.
Preface
to The Body and Physical Difference:
Discourses of Disability, ed. David Miller and Sharon L. Snyder (The
Body, in Theory series, UM Press, 1997).
“Unconscious
Agency in Nietzsche,”Nietzsche-Studien
17 (1998) 153-95.
“Nietzsche
et les charmes de la métaphysique: ‘La logique du sentiment.’” Revue
germanique internationale. 1999.
11 (special issue: “Nietzsche
moraliste”): 157-72.
“Introduction,”Constructions of the Classical Body
, ed. J. I. Porter (UM Press, 1999) 1-14.
“Literaturtheorie,
griechische,” in Der
neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, ed. Hubert Cancik und Helmuth
Schneider (Stuttgart:
J.B. Metzler,
1999), 7:342-49.
“
Des sons qu’on ne peut entendre: Cicéron, les “kritiko€”
et la tradition du sublime dans la critique littéraire,” in La
Polémique entre écoles philosophiques à Rome au Ier s. av. n. è.: Cicéron
et Philodème de Gadara, ed. Clara Auvray-Assayas and
Daniel Delattre (Paris) (in press; 2000)
“Ideals and Ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the Second
Sophistic,” in Pausanias:
Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, ed. S. E. Alcock and J. Elsner,
Oxford University Press (in press; 2000)
“Nietzsche and the Reinvention of Antiquity.”
Pre-print of ch. 5 (sel.) from Nietzsche
and the Philology of the Future.
In Nietzsche
and Antiquity: Philological and Philosophical Reflections, special
issue of New
Nietzsche Studies 2000 (in press)
“Zeitatomistik,”
Journal of Nietzsche Studies
2000, special issue on Nietzsche’s “Time-Atom Theory”
“Vergil’s
Voids,” for Lacan and the Classics volume, ed. M. Buchan and J. I. Porter.
“The
Subject as Void in Classical Literature: Homer to Lucretius,” Introduction to
Lacan and the Classics volume, ed. M. Buchan and J. I. Porter.
Reviews and Review Essays
Subjectivity
and Representation in Descartes:
The Origins of Modernity, by
Dalia Judovitz. Modern Language Notes, v. 103, no. 4 (1988), pp. 915-20.
Changing
Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies in the Human Body in Antiquity,
ed. Dominic Montserrat. American Journal of Archaeology
(1999), 103:3.
“‘Rare
Impressions’: Nietzsche’s Philologica:
A Review of the Colli-Montinari Edition (KGW 2.1-5).’” International Journal of the Classical
Tradition, 6.3 (Winter): 2000 (in press).
Alessandra
Manieri, L’imagine poetica nella teoria degli
antichi: Phantasia ed enargeia. Classical
World, 2000.
Walther
Ludwig, Hellas in Deutschland: Darstellungen der
Gräzistik im deutschprachigen Raum aus dem 15. und 17. Jahrhundert.
Bryn
Mawr Classical Review, 2000.
Alain
Martin, Oliver Primavesi, L’Empédocle
de Strasbourg (P.
Strasb. gr. Inv. 1665-1666). Introduction, édition et commentaire
(1998). BASP.
(in progress)
Heiko
Oberman, The Roots of Antisemitism
(Fortress Press, 1984) [Wurzeln des Antisemitismus (Severin
und Siedler, 1982)].
Two
essays in Odo Marquard, Farewell
to Matters of Principle (Oxford University Press, 1989) [Abschied
vom Prinzipiellen: Philosophische
Studien (Stuttgart : P. Reclam, 1981).]