PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Division Chair for “Rethinking the African Diaspora” section of the African Studies Association Conference in San Francisco, November 2006.

Advisory Board – Profession (Modern Language Association of America), 2004 -2006.

Advisory Board – Journal of Contemporary Thought (Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India) 2004- present.

Advisory Board – Inter-Cultural Studies (University of Newcastle , Australia) 2003-present.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Modern Language Association of America, Service Term: 2005-2009.

Participant in NEH Summer Institute: "Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands." June - August 2003.

Director – Faculty Development Seminar at the National Humanities Center on “Postcolonial Theory and the Globalization of Culture.” June 2003.

Elected to the Executive Committee of the Division of African Literatures, Modern Language Association of America, Service Term : 2001-2006.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Discussion Group on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Language, Modern Language Association of America, Service Term: 2000-2005.

Conference Convenor, “Multi-Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice,” (MELUS 2000), March 9-12, 2000.

Conference Co-Convenor : “Ethnologie Feminine : Autobiography, Identity and Global Culture” Tulane University, Spring 1998.

Delegate -- Modern Language Association of America. Service Term 1997 - 1999; 2005-2007.

Member of the Commission on World and Comparative Literature, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Service Term : November 1996 - November 1999.

Elected to the Executive Committee of the Division of Anthropological Approaches to Literature, Modern Language Association of America, Service Term : 1996 - 2000.