Advisory editor Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, vol. on
American Lit. up to 1900.

Editorial board member Symbiosis. Journal launched in Spring 1997

Trustee, Meadville Lombard Theological School 1981-87.

Member, Board of Directors, David R. Godine Inc Publisher, 1980-present.

Member Emerson Commemorative Committee, 1982.

Director, Lilly Program in Continuing Education for College Teachers,
1980, renewed in 1981. $90,000 grant from Lilly Endowment.

Assoc. Editor Denver Ouarterly, 1967-1976, 1983-1987.

Book Review Editor Denver Ouarterly, 1976-1983.

Editorial Board, Western Review, 1970-1974.

Consultant:
for Wake Forest University Humanities Program, 2000.
for Graham Parkes' film on Thoreau
on Emerson and Thoreau quotations for Justin Kaplan's new edition of
Bartlett's Quotations.
Denver Public Schools Middle School Humanities Project, 1984-86.
Loretto Heights Humanities Program, 1982
Langdon-Roth films (education/Mark Twain Stories).
Staff for American Issues Forum, Univ of Denver (NEH) 1974.
Bordercrossings, a Chinese-English Annual Publication by Liaoning Univ., PRC.

Referee for:
Society of American Historians, Parkman Prize 2005
Pen Martha Allbrand Award for first non-fiction, 2002.
Guggenheim Fellowship Program, 2003-­
Book-length manuscripts for Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press,
Scholars Press, D.C. Heath, Univ. of North Carolina Press, The Huntington
Library Press, Univ Presses of Florida, Univ of California Press, Princeton Univ.
Press Cornell Univ. Press, Oxford Univ Press (NY), Beacon Press.
Articles for The William and Mary Ouarterly, Early American Literature,
PMLA. Journal of American History .
National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park) applications in Am.
Lit. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant applications in 19th c.
American subjects, 1980-present.
NEH panel for the Public programs Division.
Judge for Forest History prize, 1988-89
Judge for NEH Junior Scholars program, 1985 and 1986.
Member, Arbeitsprache on Mythology at Wolfenbuttel in Germany, Dec. 1980.

College or University-wide committees 1974-1987 (selected)

University of Denver
Provost search Committee, 1987
Faculty Admissions Committee, 1985
Microcomputing Committee 1985
Chair, Provost Committee, 1983. Charged with reviewing the Chancellor's
proposal to create an office of Provost.
Chancellor's Committee on University Structure, 1982
All-University Student Association Committee on Pass-Fail, 1979
Co-Chair, Ad hoc Committee to restore football at the University. 1979
Marshall Scholarship Committee, 1978-81, 1985-87.
Rhodes Scholarship Committee, 1978-1981
Chair, General Education Committee, 1977. Charged with proposing a complete
restructuring of General Education Requirements.
Priorities Committee, College of Arts and Sciences. 1976. Charged with cutting
$400,000 from the College budget.
Honors Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1975
Graduate Council, 1975
Chancellor's Distinguished Visitor Committee, 1975
Search Committee for Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1975
Search Committee for Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. 1974

University of Colorado
Promotion Committee for Marshall Brown, Fall, 1987 Committee
for new PhD in American Literary Studies, 1987

Wesleyan Univ.
Phi Beta Kappa Address, May 1996
Faculty Club Committee, 1990-1991
Rhodes and Marshall advisory Committee, Office of Career Planning