Alessandro S. Porco
Associate Professor
Professor Alessandro Porco is a literary historian whose research and teaching focus on twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. With Blake Hobby and Joseph Bathanti, Porco is coeditor of "The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025); he wrote the anthology’s scholarly introduction and, with Hobby, cowrote the biographical notes that introduce each of the anthology’s sixty poets. He has also recently published on the local history of modern poetry and the little magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina. Since his arrival at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2012, Professor Porco has been devoted to fostering literary connections with adult learners in the local community through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), regularly teaching multiweek courses on a wide variety of topics and authors, including nature poetry, twentieth-century war poetry, seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Louis MacNeice, and, most recently, Graham Greene.
Education
PhD in English (The Poetics Program), State University of New York at Buffalo
MA in English, Concordia University
BA in English, Queen's University