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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
President, Howe Society University of Florida 1994-96
MLA, Invited member National Committee on the Future of French Studies 1993
Co-Chair MLA National Conference on the Future of Graduate Programs in Foreign Languages, University of Virginia 1985
William Riley Parker Prize Jury (MLA) Member 1984-87
Chair, Editorial Board Parkman Dexter Howe Catalog (a ten-volume set) 1983-94
General Editor Ars interpretandi series, Peter Lang, New York 1986-99
Member, Chinard Prize Jury French Institute, Washington, D.C./Chapel Hill 1981-90
Chair, Editorial Board Humanities Monograph Series , Univ. of Florida Press 1977-92
Section organizer/chair at prof. conferences 12 (8 international) 1974-2009
Organizer of three international conferences University of Florida (2); Cerisy-la-Salle 1970
on Albert Camus; see Publications 1980-82
International and national conferences 21; mostly by invitation 1970-2014
Visiting appointments, guest lectureships 10 (Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, Japan) 1970-2013
SELECTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE AND CONSULTING RESPONSIBILITIES
Consultant (1991) and Chief Consultant (1994, 1997, 2000, 2003), Louisiana Board of Regents, evaluation of major institutional grants to colleges and universities in the state of Louisiana, Baton Rouge.
Chair, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Florida, 1981-1993.
Chief consultant, Final Review of the Romance Languages & Literatures department, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville (1989).
Consultant for the Florida Commissioner of Education, Foreign Language Articulation Problems (1987).
Board of Regents, State University System, Foreign Languages in Florida Project (1986-1990).
Chief consultant, Initial review of Romance Languages Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1986).
MLA guest speaker, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, Seminar West, Monterey, CA (1986).
Educational Testing Service consultant, revision of Advanced GRE in French, Cape Cod (1985).
Evaluator, Foreign Language Programs, Davidson College, N.C. (1983).
University of Florida Personnel Board, 1980-81.
Graduate Coordinator of French, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Florida, 1971-1981.
University of Florida Graduate Council, 1971-74.
READERSHIPS
To date, regular reader of manuscripts submitted to University Presses (e.g. Toronto, Chicago, Ohio State, Kentucky, Florida, etc.) and international commercial presses, as well as of articles submitted to professional journals in the U.S. and Europe.