Horace Porter
Wendell Miller Professor of English & American Studies; African-American Literature
Horace Porter joined the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty in 1999, having taught previously at Stanford University and Dartmouth College. He teaches courses in American literature, focused on African-American fiction and autobiography.
Porter is the author of Stealing Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin and one of the editors of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African-American Literary Tradition and Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America. In 2003 the UI Press published The Making of a Black Scholar, a memoir of his journey from segregated black schools in rural Georgia to Amherst College in Massachusetts and graduate school at Yale University, an educational trajectory in tandem with changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.