ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Professional Service National and International
2015
Advisory Board Member, Oxford Bibliographies, African American Literature (will compile entries, suggest authors, review and approve articles, and contribute one of my own).
Scholar/Advisor: The James Baldwin Project. http://jamesbaldwinproject.org/ScholarsAdvisors.html (February 1, 2015)
Chair, Modern Language Association Committee for William Sanders Scarborough Prize for the Best Work in Black Literature and Culture.
Editorial Board Member, FORECAST book series (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies), Liverpool University Press (with University of Chicago Press in the United States).
Editorial Board Member, The James Baldwin Review.
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
2014
Chair, Wise-Susman Prize committee, American Studies Association
Member, Modern Language Association Committee for William Sanders Scarborough Prize for the Best Work in Black Literature and Culture
Editorial Board Member, FORECAST book series (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies), Liverpool University Press (with University of Chicago Press in the United States).
Editorial Board Member, The James Baldwin Review.
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
2013
Chair, Wise-Susman Prize committee, American Studies Association
Editorial Board Member, FORECAST book series (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies), Liverpool University Press (with University of Chicago Press in the United States).
Editorial Board Member, The James Baldwin Review. (In organizational stages.)
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR; renewed)
Peer Reviewer, “Beyond Borders with James Baldwin: A Practical Guide for Everyone,” ed. Rosa Bobia, Kennesaw State University.
2012
Reader and back cover blurb writer for Nicholas F. Radel’s Understanding Edmund White. University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of African American Studies, University of Italy in Cagliari (UNICA), June 13-July 14, 2012.
Manuscript Reviewer, New York University Press
2011
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
2010
External Examiner, Dissertation Defense of Pekka Kilpeläinen, Foreign Languages and Translation Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, May 10, 2010.
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
2009
Executive Board Member, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
External Expert, Dissertation Committee, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Joensuu, Finland
2003-2006
Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Blackwell Press.
1999-00
Nominating Committee, Association of Women in Slavic Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2013-14
Curriculum Committee, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Salary Committee, Department of American Culture
Postdoctoral Fellowships Committee, Department of American Culture
2012-13
Joint Search Committee, English/DAAS, position in Caribbean Literatures and Gender/Sexualities
Symposium organizer, “Behind the Veil of the Private/Political: James Baldwin Remembered, Recalled, and Reviewed,” with invited speakers Sedat Pakay and David Leeming and faculty and guests panel. September 19-20, 2012.
Postdoctoral Fellowships Committee, Department of American Culture
Faculty Salary Committee, Department of American Culture
2010
Director of Graduate Studies
Executive Committee Member, Program in American Culture
Joint Tenure Panel Member, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology
2007-09
Director of Graduate Studies (oversaw a full review of the program and requirements; implemented changes and new rules)
Executive Committee Member, Program in American Culture
Curriculum Committee and Honors Committee, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Joint Tenure Panel, Co-Chair, Program in American Culture and Romance Languages
2006-07
Graduate Admissions Committee, Program in American Culture
Curriculum Committee and Strategic Planning Committee, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Polish Site Faculty Coordinator, Global Feminisms Project (India, Poland, China, USA), Institute for Research on Women and Gender
2005-06
Faculty Coordinator, Program in American Culture Faculty and Ph.D. Student Workshop Series
Polish Site Faculty Coordinator, Global Feminisms Project (India, Poland, China, USA), Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Present Status Committee—Institutional Self-Study, Program in American Culture
Sexual Harassment Officer, Program in American Culture
Honors Thesis Committee, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
2003-04
Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee (Program in American Culture);
Honors Program Committee, (Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)
Polish Site Faculty Coordinator, Global Feminisms Project (India, Poland, China, USA), Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
2002-03
Chair, Faculty and Student Workshop Committee; Long-Range Planning Committee (Program in American Culture);
Honors Program Committee (Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)
Polish Site Faculty Chair, Global Feminisms Project (India, Poland, China, USA), Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
2001-02
Long-Range Planning Committee, American Culture
Sexual Harassment Officer
2000-01
Graduate Admissions Committee, American Culture
Interviewer in the Project, “Women’s Work Life Narratives,” Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, USA
1999-00
Women’s Writing Group
Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Masculinity
Aarhus University, Denmark
1996-00
Director, American Literary History Section
Board Member and Associate: American Studies Center Aarhus (ASCA)
Chair, Recruiting Committee (assistant professorship in American Studies, Department of English, Aarhus University)
Interdepartmental Recruiting Committee (associate professorship in English, Odense University, Denmark)
Interdepartmental Recruiting Committee (assistant and associate professorships in English and American Literatures, Kolding University, Denmark)
Director of events (organization and administration):
- “What a Drag! Representations of Sexuality and Gender in English and American Studies,” International Seminar, American Studies Center Aarhus and Gender Studies Program (CEKVINA).
- Gender Studies in Slavic Studies, Thematic Day Seminar, Department of English, Gender Studies (CEKVINA), Slavic Department.
- “New Locations of Culture, New Geographics of Identity,” Interdisciplinary International Seminar in the series “Humanities at the Millennium.” Centre for Cultural Research, Aarhus University.
- “Cultures of Criticism, Criticism of Cultures: Interdisciplinary and Multi-Ethnic American Studies,” International Symposium, American Studies Center Aarhus and Centre for Cultural Research, Aarhus University.
- “Other America(n)s: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism.” International Symposium on American Studies. American Studies Center Aarhus, Department of English and United States Information Service.
Dissertation committee: Henrik Bødker, Distance and Immersion: ‘America’ Across the Atlantic—Three Twentieth-Century Practices, American Studies, Odense University, Denmark, June 1999.
Furman University, USA
1992-96
Director, Guest Lectures and Seminars in American and African American Studies
Committees: Task Force for Institutional Self-Study, Cultural Life Program, International Students’ Affairs, Recruiting Committee (Assistant Professor of American Literature)
Faculty Initiatives: Research Group in Critical Theory, Feminist Reading Group
Student Initiatives: Commentator in “Gender Series” for the Independent Film Society, Faculty Advisor for “Zora Neale Hurston Festival”
Major Advising
