Deborah Porter

Contact
- debzport@uw.edu
- (206) 543 0229
- Thomson Hall 201
About
Deborah Lynn Porter was trained as a Sinologist and has published on Chinese fiction, myth and cultural history spanning two millennia. She teaches at the Jackson School of International Studies, and co-directs the online Integrated Social Sciences degree program. She recently completed a monograph-length analysis of Chinese cultural patterns along the same lines advanced in her latest book Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Films (Routledge, 2018).
Education
- Princeton University, Ph.D., 1989
- Middlebury College, B.A., 1982
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
The Evolution of Chinese Filiality -Insights from the Neurosciences
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
2022
Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
2018
Character Assassination? -Empire Building and Cultural Pathology in Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Film & History, Volume 38, Issue 2
Publication Date:
2008
From Deluge to Discourse -Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Publication Date:
1996