James I. Porter

James I. Porter is Chancellor’s Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley. He began teaching at the University of Michigan in Classics and Comparative Literature (1986–2007), and then moved to UC Irvine, Classics and Comparative Literature (2007–2015), where he was director of Critical Theory from 2014 to 2015. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton and Bristol University (UK). His most recent book, The Sublime in Antiquity (Cambridge, 2016), was awarded the C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit by the Society for Classical Studies in 2017.