Dr David A. Porter

daporter@hunnu.edu.cn

2014

Ph.D. Modern & Medieval languages: NEO-LATIN, University of Cambridge

Dissertation: “Neo-Latin Formal Verse Satire from 1420 To 1616”

2017 – 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Creative WRITING AND LITERARY TRANSLATION AND CULTURE IN THE SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY

2013 – 2019

SCIENTIFIC Translator & Copy Editor, VARIOUS

· Neo-Latin Formal Verse Satire from 1420 To 1616 (Paris: Honoré Champion, Forthcoming)

ACADEMIC TRANSLATIONS:

· Scientific Translator: Chanteloup/Cantilupum, a neo-Latin poem by Madeleine de L’Aubespine Villeroy, ed. by Perrine Perrine Galand-Willemen and Matthieu Dejean (Geneva: Droz, 2020)

Articles:

· “The Early Modern Lyric: A Literary Wilderness of World Literature”, University of Toronto Quarterly, 88.2 (2019), 195-222

· “Reminiscing about Latin: Cases of Life-writing and the Classical Tradition.” CLCWEB: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.7 (2018), Thematic Issue Voices of Life, Illness and Disabilities in Life Writing and Medical Narratives. Ed. I-Chun Wang, Jonathan Locke Hart, Cindy Chopoidalo, and David Porter.

·  ‘Local and Global Contexts: Some Aspects of Neo-Latin Poetics’, Forum For World Literature Studies, 9.3 (Sept 2017), 401-423

·  ‘The Neo-Latin Satires of Hannardus Gamerius as Polemical Theology’ in Polemical Theology across Early Modern Literary Genres, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

· Book chapter on “Neo-Latin Prose Satire” & four encyclopaedia entries on “Poetic Genres: Epistles”, “Poetics: Scaliger, Vida, Vossius, Pontanus”, “The British Isles: the long sixteenth century”, and “The British Isles: later centuries”, in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, ed. by Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi, 2 vols. E.J. Brill, 2014

BOOK REVIEWS

· ‘Early Modern European Languages and Literature: A Short Review’, Forum For Linguistic Studies, 2.1 (2020), 40-43: A review of three recent monographs.

· Clark Colahan, Jagoda Marszalek, Pedro Manuel Suárez-Martínez (eds.). El Colloquium elegans de Bernal Díaz de Luco. Tradición senequista, eclesiástica y picaresca. (Georg Olms  2018), Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 43.1 (Winter 2020), 225-26

· Book Review: ‘R. F. Yeager & Brian W. Gastle, Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (MLA 2011)’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 43.4 (Winter 2012), 1221-22

· Translations of Johannes Secundus’s ‘Basium I’ & ‘Basium II’, Inventory, 2011

· ‘Ad TLS’ (A Latin acrostic poem), The Times Literary Supplement, March 4, 2011, p.32

EDITORIAL WORK

· Managing Editor, Works of Jonathan Locke Hart, 6 Vols (SJTU Press, Forthcoming).

· Thematic Issue: Voices of Life, Illness and Disabilities in Life Writing and Medical Narratives, CLCWEB: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.7 (2018). Ed. I-Chun Wang, Jonathan Locke Hart, Cindy Chopoidalo, and David Porter.

· ‘Ravisius Textor, Epithets and Originality in Early Modern Poetry’, 上海交通大学第二届翻译学博士后论坛 [The Second Postdoctoral Forum on Translation Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University], 20 April, 2018

· ‘The Neo-Latin Satires of Hannardus Gamerius as Polemical Theology’, Themes of Polemical Theology across Early Modern Literary Genres, Bratislava, 3-4 Dec 2014

· ‘The Prosody and Style of neo-Latin Satire in the 16th century’, Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period, The University of Warwick, 25-26 April 2014

· “Aiding and Abetting Interpretation: Keys to Satirical Texts”, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies Fifteenth International Congress, Münster, 5–10 August 2012

· “ ‘Quis leget haec?’: Neo-Latin Programmatic Satires”, The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Washington, DC, 22-24 March 2012

· “The First Printed Commentaries on Juvenal and their Influence”, Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies symposium on ‘Commentaries’, 13-14 September 2011

· “Public and Private Spaces in Scottish Renaissance Satire”, Public and Private Spaces in the Early Modern World Conference, University of Sheffield, 9 September 2011

· “From Flyting to Friars: Forms of Satire in the Scottish Renaissance”, Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar, University of Cambridge, 4 May 2011

· “Writing Neo-Latin Verse Satire at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century”, Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies, 28 April 2011

· “ ‘Sed iam serpentum maior concordia.’ Scholarly Debate and the Meaning of Satire in the Sixteenth Century”, The Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, 24-26 March 2011

· “Meaning and Obscenity in Neo-Latin Satire”, Clare Research Symposium, Cambridge, 17 March 2011

· “Reality among the Sheep: Political Intrusions into Arcadia”, Comparative Literature Conference: Coordinates of Comparison: Extraordinary Interpretations: Narratives and Practices, Edmonton, 21-23 March 2008

· “From Heroes to Horrors: How Translators Have Changed Our Understanding of the Iliad and Lysistrata”, The Fifth Annual Conference to Celebrate International Translation Day at University of Alberta: War and Peace: Translation as Conflict, Resistance, and Resolution, Edmonton, 30 September 2007

· “Seamus Heaney’s Reinterpretation of the Pastoral Eclogue”, Comparative Literature Conference: Coordinates of Comparison: Text, Readers, & Theories, Edmonton, 29-31 August 2007

· Smuts International Scholarship (Cambridge Commonwealth Trust) 2009-2012

· Kathleen Coburn Graduate Admissions Award (Toronto) 2008

· Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund: Graduate Student Scholarship 2008

· Friends of the Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research Scholarship (Alberta) 2007

· Late Medieval and Early Modern English and French Literature

· Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature

· The Comparative Study of European Poetic Traditions

· Comparative Literature

· Intellectual History

· Satire

· Translation

TEACHING COURSES:

· Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology