Porter, Carolyn

Carolyn Porter has taught American literature at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1972. The author of Seeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner, she has written numerous essays on Henry James, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and William
Faulkner, as well as theoretical essays on American Studies and the New Historicism.