CONSULTING
Committees and Consulting
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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
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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
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Member, Advisory Council, Midwest Program for Teaching About Japan, 1985-87