ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

• William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
• Trustee, The English Institute, 1993-2015; Trustee Emerita, 2015—
• President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), 2001-2007
• Board of Directors, American Council of Learned Societies, 2003-2011
• Director, Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1986-2005
• Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2001-2010
• Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1990-2001
• Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, 2001-2010
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford 2016—
• First Inaugural Dean’s Visiting Professor, King’s College, London 2015-2016

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Yale University (1969)
• M. Phil. Yale University (1969)
• B.A. Swarthmore College (1966, highest honors)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Shakespeare in Bloomsbury (Yale University Press, 2023))
• Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession (Macmillan Publishers, 2020)
• The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (Fordham University Press, 2016)
• Loaded Words (Fordham University Press, 2012)
• The Use and Abuse of Literature (New York, Pantheon, 2011)
• Shakespeare and Modern Culture (New York: Pantheon, 2008)
• Patronizing the Arts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)
• Profiling Shakespeare (New York: Routledge, 2008)
• Shakespeare After All (New York: Pantheon, 2004)
• A Manifesto for Literary Studies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003)
• Quotation Marks (New York: Routledge, 2002)
• Academic Instincts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
• Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (New York, Pantheon, 2000)
• Symptoms of Culture (New York: Routledge. 1998; London: Hamish/Hamilton/Penguin 1999)
• Dog Love (New York: Simon & Schuster 1996; London: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin 1997; German edition from Berlin: Autorenhaus-Verlag, 2008)
• Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (New York: Simon & Schuster 1995; London: Hamish Hamilton Viking/Penguin 1996; German edition Fischer Verlag. Reissued as Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (Routledge, 2000).
• Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. (New York: Routledge 1992). Paperback edition, HarperCollins 1992; U.K. edition from Viking/Penguin, 1993; German edition from Fischer Verlag, 1993; Italian edition Raffalleo Cortina 1994.
• Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers: Literature As Uncanny Causality. (London: Methuen, 1987; New York: Routledge, 1997). Japanese edition. Republished in 2010 as Routledge Classics edition.
• Coming of Age in Shakespeare. (London: Methuen, 198l; New York: Routledge 1997)
• Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974)

Edited Volumes

• The Medusa Reader, co-edited with Nancy J. Vickers (New York: Routledge, 2003)
• The Turn to Ethics, co-edited with Beatrice Hanssen and Rebecca L. Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 2000), CultureWork series
• One Nation Under God? Religion and American Culture, co-edited with Rebecca L. Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1999), CultureWork series
• Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies, co-edited with Paul B.Franklin and Rebecca L. Walkowitz (New York: Routledge,1996), CultureWork series
• Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America, co-edited with Rebecca L. Walkowitz (New York: Routledge,1995), CultureWork series
• Media Spectacles, co-edited with Jann Matlock and Rebecca Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1993), CultureWork series
• Cannibals, Witches and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance, editor. Selected papers from the English Institute, 1985-1986 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987)

Essays and Articles

• 2021“As ‘Twere; or, Misrecognition,” Raritan, 41.1, 1 (summer 2021), pp. 96-120, 164.
• “The HUAC Othello,” Critical Inquiry, (spring 2021), 47.3, pp. 477-501.
• 2020“Extension Work,” in Shakespeare in Our Time, eds. Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020).
• “Tail-Piece: Shake That Thing,” in Shakespeare’s Things, eds. Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzy (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 224-233.
• 2019 "Heyday" in symploke, 27:1-2, pp. 431-441
• “Relatable,” Raritan 38.4 (spring 2019), pp. 113-129, 158.
• 2017 “Ovid, Now and Then,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• “Fig Leaves,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• “Identity Theft,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• “Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• “Occupy Shakespeare,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• “Shakespeare 451,” in The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
• 2016 "Over the Influence" Critical Inquiry 42, no.4, (Summer, 2016)
• "Money for Jam," in Shakespeare in Our Time, ed. Dymphna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)
• 2013 “Ovid, Now and Then," in Critical Inquiry (Fall 2013)
• 2012 “Baggage Screening,” in Saying It, eds. Renate Ferro, Mieke Bal, and Michelle Williams Gamaker (London: Freud Museum, 2012), 73-80.
• 2011 “Translating F.O. Matthiessen,” Raritan 30.3 (Winter 2011)
• “Anatomy of a Honey Trap,” Foreign Policy (March/April 2011)
• 2010 “Shakespeare in Slow Motion,” Profession (spring 2010)
• “A Tale of Three Hamlets: or, Repetition and Revenge,” Shakespeare Quarterly 61:1 (March 2010)
• 2008 “Good to Think With,” Profession (Modern Language Association, 2008)
• 2007 “Third Person Interruption,” The Book of Interruptions, eds. David Hillman and Adam Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• 2006 “Loaded Words,” Critical Inquiry (Summer 2006)
• 2002 “Our Genius Problem,” The Atlantic Monthly (December 2002)
• “Coercive Voluntarism,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (December 31, 2002)
• “Codes of Conduct,” The Boston Globe (December 22, 2002)
• 2001 “Coveting Your Neighbor’s Discipline,” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2001)
• “Moniker,” Our Monica, Ourselves, eds. Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan (New York: NYU Press, 2001)
• “Two Point Conversion,” Between Law and Culture, eds. Lisa Bowers, David Theo Goldberg, and Michael Mushemo (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
• 2000 “Second-Best Bed,” Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture, eds. Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor (New York: Routledge, 2000)
• 1999 “ ‘ ’ (Quotation Marks),” Critical Inquiry 25:4 (Summer 1999)
• “As They Like It” [on the Shakespeare authorship controversy], Harper’s (April 1999)
• “Reflection on The Lives of Animals,” J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
• “Roles,” Critical Terms in Gender Theory, eds. Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt (University of Chicago Press)
• 1998 “The Shrug Culture,” The New York Times Magazine (September 6, 1998)
• 1997 “Out of Joint,” The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, eds. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio (New York: Routledge, 1997)
• 1996 “Why We Love Dogs” The New Yorker (July 8, 1996)
• “Cinema Scopes: Evolution, Media and the Law,” Law and the Domains of Culture, ed. Austin Sarat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
• “The Insincerity of Women,” Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature, ed. Regina Schwartz (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Reprinted in Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, eds. Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• “What Is Culture? What Are Cultures?” Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1996)
• 1995 “The Marvel of Peru.” Foreword to Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, trans. Michele Stepto Gabriel and Stepto (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995)
• “Heavy Petting,” Human, All Too Human, ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1995), English Institute series
• “Viktor Petrenko’s Mother-in-Law,” Women on Ice, ed. Cynthia Baughman (New York: Routledge, 1995)
• “Bisexuality and Celebrity,” The Seductions of Biography, eds. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff (New York: Routledge, 1995)
• “Jello,” Secret Agents, eds. Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1995)
• 1993 “From Dietrich to Madonna: Cross-Gender Icons,” Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader, eds. Pam Cook and Philip Dodd (London: Scarlet Press, 1993)
• 1992 “Overcoming ‘Auction Block’: Stories Masquerading as Objects,” Critical Quarterly (December 1992). Reprinted in Confessions, of the Critics ed. H. Aram Veeser (New York: Routledge, 1996)
• “‘Greatness’: Philology and the Politics of Mimesis,” Feminism and Postmodernism, a special issue of boundary 2, eds. Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke. Subsequently published as a volume by Duke University Press (1992)
• “Strike a Pose” [on Marlene Dietrich], Sight and Sound (September 1992)
• 1991 “The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the Erotics of Cultural Exchange,” Bodyguards, eds. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (New York: Routledge, 1991)
• “The Occidental Tourist: M. Butterfly and the Scandal of Transvestism,” Nationalisms and Sexualities, eds. Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger (New York: Routledge, 1991)
• “The Transvestite’s Progress: Rosalind the Yeshiva Boy,” The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth, ed. Jean Marsden (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)
• 1990 “The Roaring Girl and the Scandal of Transvestism,” Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, eds. David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass (New York: Routledge, 1990)
• “Fetish Envy,” October 54 (Fall 1990)
• “Shakespeare as Fetish,” Shakespeare Quarterly 41.3 (Summer 1990)
• 1989 “Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies,1.3 (Fall 1989). Reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michelle Barale, and David Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993)
• 1987 “Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History,” The Historical Renaissance: New Essays in Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture, eds. Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
• “Secret Sharing: Reading Conrad Psychoanalytically,” (co-authored with Barbara Johnson), College English 49:6 (October 1987)
• “Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers,” Cannibals, Witches and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance, ed. Marjorie Garber (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
• 1986 “The Education of Orlando,” Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan, eds. A.R.Braunmuller and J.C. Bulman (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986, and London and Toronto: Associated University Presses)
• “‘What's Past is Prologue’: The Dramatic Role of the Audience in Shakespeare's History Plays,” Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, Harvard English Studies, 14, ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1986)
• 1984 “‘Here's Nothing Writ’: Scribe, Script, and Superscription in Marlowe's Plays,” Theater Journal 36:3 (October 1984)
• “‘The Rest is Silence’: Ineffability and the ‘Unscene’ in Shakespeare's Plays,” Ineffability from Dante to Beckett, eds. Peter S. Hawkins and Anne Howland Schotter (New York: AMS Press, 1984)
• 1981 “‘Remember Me’: Memento Mori Figures in Shakespeare’s Plays,” Renaissance Drama 12 (198l)
• 1980 “‘The Eye of the Storm’: Structure and Myth in Shakespeare’s Tempest,” Hebrew University Studies in Literature 8:1 (Spring 1980)
• “‘Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death’: Dark Moments in Shakespearean Comedy,” Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Maurice Charney (New York: New York Literary Forum, 1980)
• “The Healer in Shakespeare,” Medicine and Literature, ed. Enid Rhodes Peschel (New York: Neal Watson Academic Publications, 1980)
• 1979 “Marlovian Vision / Shakespearean Revision,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 22 (1979)
• “Romeo and Juliet: A Learning Guide,” produced for the U.C. San Diego Extension Division in conjunction with the BBC-PBS televised Shakespeare plays (Los Angeles: Kendall Hunt, 1979)
• 1978 “‘Vassal Actors’: The Role of the Audience in Shakespearean Tragedy,” Renaissance Drama 9 (1978)
• 1977 “‘Infinite Riches in a Little Room’: Closure and Enclosure in Marlowe,” Two Renaissance Mythmakers, Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1975-1976, ed. Alvin Kernan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977)
• “Coming of Age in Shakespeare,” The Yale Review 66:4 (Summer 1977)
• “Cymbeline and the Languages of Myth,” Mosaic l0:3 (Spring 1977)
• 1975 “Fallen Landscape: The Art of Milton and Poussin,” English Literary Renaissance 5:8 (Winter 1975)
• 1973 “The Generic Contexts of When We Dead Awaken,” Dramatic Romance, ed. Howard Felperin (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973)

Op-Ed Pieces and Reviews

• 2008 “Higher Art,” The Boston Globe Opinion page (October 5, 2008)
• 2001 “Heart and Hoof,” (review of Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend), London Review of Books (October 4, 2001)
• 2000 “Spitting, Sneezing, Smearing,” (review of David Trotter, Cooking with Mud) London Review of Books (August 10, 2000)
• “To Limn is Divine, Burbs are for Borons,” Times Higher Education Supplement (July 7, 2000)
• “Fine Art for 39 Cents,” London Review of Books (March 2000)
• 1999 “No End of Sequels,” London Review of Books (August 19, 1999)
• 1995 “Back to Whose Basics?” New York Times Book Review (October 29, 1995)
• 1994 “The Bard and the Undead,” New York Times Op-Ed page (November 25, 1994)
• 1993 “Maximum Exposure,” New York Times Op-Ed page (December 4, 1993)
• 1992 “Read My Lipstick,” New York Times Op-Ed page (August 20, 1992)
• “Joe Camel, an X-Rated Smoke,” New York Times Op-Ed page (March 20, 1992)

AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2015 Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Shakespeare Institute
• 2012 American Philosophical Society
• 2009 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University
• 2006-2008 Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Governance and Accountability Grant for Research into Arts Nonprofits
• 2006 Bates College Honorary Degree
• 2005 Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa for Shakespeare After All
• 2004 Swarthmore College Honorary Degree
• 2004 Radcliffe Fellowship (declined)
• 1999 “Literary Light” honoree, Associates of the Boston Public Library
• 1989-90 Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
• 1989-90 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• 1988 Petra Shattuck Teaching Award, Harvard Extension School
• 1977-78 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
• 1974 Named one of the ten best teachers at Yale University
• 1972-73 Morse Fellowship for Younger Scholars in the Humanities
• 1967-69 Yale University Fellowships
• 1966 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (Past and Present)

• 2004-present William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University
• 1995-2004 William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Harvard University
• 1981-95 Professor of English at Harvard University
• 1987 Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College (Summer)
• 1979-81 Professor of English, Haverford College
• 1975-79 Associate Professor of English, Yale University
• 1969-75 Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

COURSES TAUGHT (selected and recent)

Graduate Courses

• “The Animal Moment”
• “Cultural Studies”
• “Drama, Theory, and Performance”
• “Expertise” (co-taught with David Kennedy, Harvard Law School)
• “Gender Theory and Gender Performance”
• “Heroes”
• “The Hamlet Complex”
• “The Intellectual Life of the Profession”
• “The Literary Essay”
• “Problems in Shakespearean Interpretation”
• “Reading Freud”
• “Repetition and Revenge”
• “Shakespeare and Myth”
• “Shakespeare in Slow Motion”
• “Teaching and Professional Development”

Undergraduate Courses

• “Introduction to Cultural Studies”
• “Dramatic Romance”
• “European Literary Tradition”
• “Jane Austen”
• “The Letter as Literature”
• “Literature and Fiction-Making”
• “Major English Poets”
• “Metaphysical Poetry”
• “Porgy and Bess: Performance and Context” (co-taught with Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater)
• “Problems in Drama”
• “Renaissance Drama”
• “Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Poetry”
• “Repetition and Revenge”
• “Shakespeare, the Early Plays”
• “Shakespeare, the Later Plays”
• “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”
• “Shakespeare in Slow Motion”
• “Theater, Dream, Shakespeare” (co-taught with Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater)

PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCES (selected and recent)

Named lectures and lecture series

• Collins Memorial Lecture, Indiana University, February 2019
• Treaty of Utrecht Professor, University of Utrecht (2011-12)
• Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities
• George Sommer Lecturer, Marist College
• Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, University of Miami Center for the Humanities
• Elizabeth Drew Memorial Lecturer, Bread Loaf School of English
• Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecturer, Queen’s University
• Distinguished Visitor of the Dimic Institute for Comparative and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
• James Haley Lecturer, Phillips Exeter Academy
• Jackman Distinguished Visitor, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
• Stacy Allen Haines Memorial Lectureship, University of the South, Sewanee
• Institute for Humanities Research Distinguished Lecturer, Arizona State University
• Woodman Lecturer, Purdue University
• Gunn Memorial Lecturer, University of Kansas
• Helen C. Morrin Memorial Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
• Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, University of Washington
• First Annual Barbara Powell Humanities Lecturer, University of Regina, Saskatechewan
• Lewis Clark Vanuxem Lectures, Princeton University
• Keck Lecturer, Amherst College
• Fales Lecturer, New York University
• Hilda Hulme Lecturer, University of London
• Respondent to the Tanner Lectures, Princeton University

Invited lectures (selected)

Idea Festival, Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation/American Program Bureau; Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities; Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC; Boston University; Brown University; Colorado College; University of the South; University of Southern California; Vanderbilt University; Amherst College; Carleton College; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; Stanford University; Cornell University; Yale University; Emory University; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Dartmouth College; Barnard College; University of Miami; University of Vermont; University of New Hampshire; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Center for Twentieth Century Studies); University of Michigan; Clemson University; Loyola University, Chicago;University of Texas, Austin; University of Illinois, Chicago; Haverford College; Swarthmore College; Northwestern University; University of North Carolina at Asheville; CUNY; University of Munich; University of Konstanz; University of Frankfurt; Free University of Berlin; Literature House, Frankfurt; Brecht House, Berlin; University of Trento, Trento, Italy; University of Wales, Cardiff.; Utrecht University; MLA (Divisions on Shakespeare, Teaching as a Profession, Comparative Literature in the 20th Century, Literary Criticism, special sessions); The English Institute; The Shakespeare Association of America; American Studies Association; International Association of University Professors of English (Geneva).

COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS (selected and recent)

• Trustee, English Institute, 1993-
• President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), 2001-07
• Director, Carpenter Center for Visual Art (2001-2010)
• Chair, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (2001-2010)
• Parliamentarian, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 2005-07
• Director, Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 1986-2005
• Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 1990-2001
• Chair, Committee on Educational Policy, Haverford College 1980-81
• Advisory Board, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
• Advisory Board, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College
• Humanities Initiative Steering Committee, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
• Leadership Council, Design Industry Group of Massachusetts (DIGMA)
• Governing Board, University of California Humanities Research Institute
• Chair, 15-year Humanities Review and Pacific Rim Review, University of California
• Institutional Review, Columbia University Press
• MLA Division Executive Committee on Shakespeare (Chair, 1991)
• Trustee, Shakespeare Association of America
• Chair, Committee on Arrangements, Shakespeare Association of America
• Editorial Board, Shakespeare Studies
• Consulting Editor, "The International Literary Quarterly"
• Consultant, Nantucket Arts Council Shakespeare Festival
• Chair, the English Institute
• Executive Secretary, the English Institute
• MLA Division Executive Committee on Teaching as a Profession
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
• NEH Summer Institutes, Folger Library
• Member, Modern Languages Association (MLA)
• Member, Shakespeare Association of America
• Member, Renaissance Society of America
• Member, International Association of University Professors of English

Committee and Administrative Service, Harvard University

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English
• Chair, Search Committees (various), Department of English
• Chair, Committee on Admissions, Department of English
• Selection Committee, Whiting Fellowships
• Faculty Chair, Graduate Colloquium on Teaching, Department of English
• Faculty Co-Chair, Graduate Colloquium on Renaissance Literature, Department of English
• Faculty Co-Chair, Graduate Colloquium on Feminist Criticism, Department of English
• Search Committee, Director of American Repertory Theatre
• Chair, Theodore Spencer Lecture Fund Committee, Department of English
• Organizer, ad hoc Committee on Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Educational Policy Committee
• Chair, Committee on Inquiry
• Committee on Pedagogical Improvement
• 350th Anniversary Committee
• Degree Committee on History and Literature
• Degree Committee on Literature
• Degree Committee on Women's Studies
• Core Program, Subcommittee on Literature and the Arts
• Chair, Standing Committee on the Status of Women
• Standing Committee on Expository Writing
• Standing Committee on Dramatic Arts