James I. Porter

Professor

Department of Classical Studies

&

Program in Comparative Literature

University of Michigan


jport@umich.edu

Department of Classical Studies

Program in Comparative Literature

 

Democritus (ridens)
 

Visit these current courses (W 03):

Nietzsche and Tragedy

Old Courses

W 2002:

Reading Homer/Reading Culture

Ovid

Fall 2001:

Value and Valuation

(Comp. Lit. 600: Topics in Theory)

Aristophanes

(Greek 807)

W 2001:

Whose Greece? Whose Rome?

F 2000:

Lucretius and Roman Epicureanism

Trauma and Memory

F 99:

Theaters of Identity: Greece

(Classical Civilization 120.001)

Rethinking the Humanities: Models of Discipline and Desire

(CL 770.001, History 604, Rackham 570.001)

 

Contexts for Classics (CFC).

 

Visit the Body/Bildung Conference Website (October 8-10, 1999)

 

Books by JIP:

Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future (2000)

The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy (2000)

Constructions of the Classical Body (1999)

Visit The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism (book series)

Classical philology: A modest proposal (review of W. Ludwig, Hellas in Deutschland, in BMCR 9/5/2000)

 

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