Service to the Profession
Renaissance Society of America
Vice President, Board of Directors, 2026-2028
Chair, Associate Organizations and International Cooperation. Responsible for: promoting the interests of one hundred and nineteen Associate Organizations and facilitating their relations with each other and with the Board; considering applications for association with international and domestic groups and organizations, and presenting recommendations to the Board. 2024 – 2026
Nominating Committee, 2025
Focus Group. Five Year Plan and Capital Campaign, 2025
Focus Group. Future Directions for the Renaissance Society of America. March 2024
Associate Organizations and International Cooperation Committee, 2021-2024
Ad Hoc Committee for the creation of a new Mission, Vision, & Values Statement, 2020
Folger Institute Consortium – Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Central Executive Committee (CEC). 2018-2026
Chair, Focus Group. Environmental Studies. Developing program planning with CEC. 2024-2026
Working Group on Folger Institute Undergraduate Opportunities. 2023-2024
UMass Amherst Representative. 2018-
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Short-Term Research Fellowships Committee. 3 year appointment: 2017; 2018; 2019
Shakespeare Association of America
Ad Hoc Committee. Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures, 2023-2024
Nominating Committee. Committee to nominate Trustees and VP. 2015-2016
Ad Hoc Committee to produce a policy on gender and sexual harassment, 2015-2016
Board Memberships & Editorial Experience
Editorial Board. English Literary Renaissance. 2018—
Editor. Michigan Feminist Studies. “Within Hostile Borders,” Issue 18, 2004
Editorial Assistant. Gay Shame, eds. David Halperin and Valerie Traub. U Chicago Press, 2008
Editorial Assistant. Oral Tradition. Editor, John Miles Foley. 1998-2000
New England Humanities Consortium
Board Member, 2025-
Responsible for the inauguration of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies into NEHC, a network of twenty colleges and universities across New England, established in 2018, that promotes intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovative educational programming for faculty, students, and the regional, national, and global communities they serve.