SERVICE & ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD
Arizona State University
School of International Letters and Cultures, director (2016-2022)
Ohio State University
University
International Faculty Council, Office of International Affairs (2013–)
University Senate, member (2008-11)
Senate Diversity Committee (2010-11)
Senate Steering Committee, member (2008-09)
Senate, alternate (2003-06)
Arts and Sciences
Faculty Advisory Committee to Executive Dean and Vice Provost Manderscheid, Arts and Sciences (chair 2013-14; member 2012-13, 2014-15)
Internationalizing the Curriculum Committee, member (2011-12)
Research committee, member (2008-09)
Course and Curriculum Committee, College of Humanities representative (2006-08)
ASC Curriculum Committee, Sub-committee C, member (2006-08)
Globalization Studies Initiative, co-chair (2005-07, major proposal sent to CCI in Winter 2007)
Arts and Humanities
“Literacy in Translation,” Translation Studies Network, organizing committee member (2013-15)
Hagerty Hall Blue Ribbon Committee, member (2011-12)
Tenure and Promotion committee, member (2011—)
Humanities
Tenure and Promotion committee, member (2010-11)
Undergraduate Studies Chairs Committee, Chair (2005-08)
Committee on Interdisciplinarity, member (2001-05)
Committee on writing “A Humanities Response to National Security Documents,” member (2002-03)
Committee on World Literature/Global Cultures, member (2001-03)
Subcommittee to write a proposal for a major in World Literatures and Cultures, Chair (2002-03)
Germanic Literatures and Languages
Graduate Studies Committee, Chair (2002-04)
Comparative Studies
Graduate Studies Committee, Chair (2014–)
Lecture Committee, Chair (2012-214)
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Chair (2004-08; 2010-12)
Participated in search committees of Comparative Studies, DEALL, AAAS, and NELC
National
Committee on the future of the German Studies Association, committee member (appointed, 2013)
Co-organized, with Andrew Zimmerman, a three-day seminar with 27 participants on “Global History, Literature, and Culture from a German Base.” 2.5 hours of discussion for three days during the October 2013 annual meeting of the German Studies Association
Represented the College of Humanities at Humanities Alliance Day in Washington, D.C. (March 18 and 19, 2013)
Reviewer, American University in Berlin (June 2013)
Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies (December 2010)
Publications of the Modern Language Association, Advisory Committee (2007-2010)
External evaluator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008)
Screener on International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program selection committee, Social Science Research Council (December 2002, January 2004)
Research in African Literatures, associate editor; (August 2002––August 2004)
Weltengarten, editorial board; (August 2002–2012)
University of Texas at Austin
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Associate Director (1999-2001)
Graduate Studies Director (1996-99)
Executive Committee, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1996-2001)
Lecture Committee, Chair (1998-2001)