Washington University service administrative and interdisciplinary work: Washington University English Department: Director, Undergraduate Studies July 2009 to 2011 Director, Graduate Studies, January 2001-July 2005 Director, Creative Writing Program, 1999-2000 Director, Honors Program in English, 2011-present Executive Committee, 1995-6 and 1999 to 2001; 2005; 2011-2012 Graduate Committee, 1995 to 2009; 2011-present English Department Mentoring Committee, 2002-2004 English Department job search committees (Victorian, IPH British modernism, 20th century American; Chair, search committee 2006 Anglophone Literature search) Graduate placement committee, 1999 to 2005 Curriculum Committee, 2000 to July 2005; July 2009 to 2012 Curriculum Committee subcommittee to develop undergraduate teaching of literary theory, spring 2012 Faculty Council member, 2006 to 2008 Affirmative Action Committee, 2004 to 2007 (chair, humanities, division, 2006 to 2007) Curriculum Committee for the university, 2001-2003 Educational Policy Committee for Board of Trustees, 2001 to 2003 Chair, Executive Committee, Arts and Sciences Graduate Studies, 2002- 2003; fall 2004-July 2005 University Graduate Council, 1999-2000 and 2001 to July 2005 Washington University, Olin Library, Special Collections advisory board Chair, Teaching and Professional Development Committee, Graduate Council, 2004-2005 Participant in Center for Humanities workshop Transatlantic Crossings 2012-13 Center for Humanities Research Grant evaluation committee, 2010