Service
Learned Societies
North American Study for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Founder and Chair of the Executive, 1991-2020; Senior Advisor, 2020-
North American Schelling Society (NASS), Member of the Executive, 2013-22; Co-Chair, 2022-26.
Modern Languages Association:
Program Committee, 2012-15
James Russell Lowell Prize Committee, 2007-9
Member of Executive: Forum on Literary and Cultural Theory, 2015-18; Forum on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, 2015-20; Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, 2001-6; Division on the English Romantic Period, 1993-98; Division on Non-Fictional Prose, 1985-88.
Editorial Boards
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History, 1996-2015
European Romantic Review, 1993-
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 2003-2020
Kabiri: The Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society, 2017-
Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, 1998-2000
PMLA, 1990-94 (Advisory Board)
PMLA, 1997-99 (Editorial Board)
Postmodern Culture, 2004-
Romantic Circles, 1991- (Advisory Board)
Studies in the Novel, 1999-2008
Studies in English Literature, 2010-
Wordsworth Circle, 1993-
Prose Studies 2020-
Book Manuscripts Evaluated:
Ashgate, Blackwell, Bloomsbury Academic, Broadview Press, Bucknell University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Federation for the Humanities, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Fordham University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan, McGill-Queen's University Press, Modern Languages Association, Northwestern University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, State University of New York Press, University of Toronto Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Yale University Press
Articles Evaluated:
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Clio, Cultural Critique, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Eighteenth-Century Life, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, English Studies in Canada, Epoche, European Romantic Review, Genders, Gothic Studies, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Idealistic Studies, Journal of Gender Studies, Modern Language Notes, Modern Philology, Mosaic, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, PMLA, Postmodern Culture, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism on the Net
Romantic Textualities, Signature, Studies in English Literature, Studies in the Novel, Studies in Romanticism, Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
Tenure and Promotion Reviews:
Boston University, Boston College, Brigham Young University, University of British Columbia, Brown University, University of Calgary, University of California-Riverside, University of Colorado-Boulder, Columbia University, Dalhousie University, Duke University, Emory University, University of Maryland, University of Melbourne, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of North Texas, Northwestern University, Oklahoma State University, Oxford University, University of Pennsylvania, Purdue University, Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada), Rutgers University, Rice University, Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Yale University