Italian

2011 – 2014 Council Member, Dante Society of America.

2010 – 2013  Selection Committee, Modern Language Association, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies.

2008 – 2009 Consultant, CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange).
 
2006 – 2007 Co-organizer with Aden Evens (Dartmouth) and Susan McHugh (University of New England) of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Topic: CODE. November 1-4. Portland, Maine.

2006 – 2010 Council Member, Dante Society of America.

2004 – 2005 Member-at-Large, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).

2003 – 2004 Co-organizer with sculptor Laurie Palmer of the Art Institute of Chicago a series of ten interdisciplinary workshops at Harvard University on the subject of SPACE.

2002 – 2003  Collaborated with John Ahern (Vassar, Italian) to develop a project entitled "Illuminating Dante" for the Dante Society of America"

2003 – 2007 Executive Committee, Division of Literature and Science of the Modern Language Association.

2002 – Executive Board, CET Study Abroad Programs in Siena and Catania, Italy. 

2000 – 2003 Representative, Division of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature of the Modern Language Association. 

Manuscript Reader for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press.