CONSULTING
Committees and Consulting
Member, Editorial Board, The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 1993- present
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Japan Review, 2001-13
Member, Editorial Board, Modern Language Association of America, 1995-2003
Member, Editorial Board, The Comparatist, 1995-2006
Member, Editorial Board, Early Modern Japan, 1994-2006
Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Macmillan Reference USA (Thomson-Gale), 2005-07
Member, Outside Review Committee, 10th-year program review of the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (Consortium of American Universities, “Stanford Center”), 1999
Consultant, Early Modern Japanese Materials Cataloging Project, U.S. Library of Congress, 1997-2002
Consultant, NEH collaborative project, “Keywords of the Chinese Revolution: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language in 20-th Century China,” 1992-95
Member, Advisory Committee for East Asia and the Pacific, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Grants), 1993-1996; Japan Committee, 1998
Proposal Reviewer, Woodrow Wilson Center Research Program, 1992, 1993, and 1994
Consultant for Tokyo Executive Committee, International Comparative Literature Association, 1989-93
Member, Outside Review Committee for program review of Department of Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, 1992
Member, Intercultural Studies Committee, International Comparative Literature Association, 1990-2000
Member of Judges' Panel for the National Endowment for the Humanities grants, 1988 and 2008; Evaluator of NEH grant proposals, 1987, 1994, and 1995
NEH Consultant, Workshop on Teaching World Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, November 1987
Member, Advisory Council, Midwest Program for Teaching About Japan, 1985-87