2008-11

Director, Program in Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University

2010-11

Vice-Chair, Department of English

Member, Stanford Faculty Senate

Member, Stanford Committee on Committees

2007-17

Member, Advisory Board, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UK

2007-08

Member, Junior Search Committee in African Diasporas, Dept. of English

Member, Senior Search Committee in Early American Literature, Dept. of English

Member, Executive Committee, Program in Modern Thought & Literature

2006-07

Co-Chair, Senior Search Committee on Poetry and Poetics, Dept. of English, Stanford University

Member, I-EARTH Planning Committee, Stanford University

2006-08

Member, Creative Planning Committee, Dept. of English, Stanford University

2005-07

Member, Academic Committee, Woods Institute for the Environment

2005-06

Co-Director, Graduate Admissions, Dept. of English, Stanford University

2005-11

Member, Executive Committee, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University

2004-05

Chair's Advisory Committee, Department of English, Stanford University

2004-06

Co-Director, Graduate Admissions, Department of English, Stanford University

2002-03

Associate Chair, Department of English, Columbia University

Policy Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

Junior Search Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

Fall 2002

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Center for Comparative Literature & Society

1999-2001

Policy Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

1998-2001

Executive Committee, Center for Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia U.

1998-99

Junior Faculty Hiring Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

1996-99

Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature Program, Columbia Univ.

1994-98

Comparative Literature Committee, Columbia University

1995-97

Policy Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

Spring 1996

Director, Undergraduate Comparative Literature Program, Columbia University

1994

Composition Committee, Department of English, Columbia University

1994-95

Junior Faculty Hiring Committee, Department of English, Columbia University