Seminar on Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," University of Puget Sound, 15 March 1985.
Seminar on Chaucer's Pardoner, University of Puget Sound, April ll, l986; April 8, 1987.
Referee for Promotion of Associate Professor Linda Georgianna (English, UC Irvine) to Professor, December 1990.
Faculty Council on Academic Standards, 1976-78; 1981-82; vice chair, 1977-78; 1981-82;
Subcommittee on School/College Admissions, chair, 1976-78.
Committee on Admissions and Academic Standards, 1980-82; chair, 1981-82.
Faculty Senate, 1981-85, 1991-93, 1994-99, 2010-13; Vice Chair 1991-92; Chair 1992-93.
Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1982-84, 1991-93, 1994-99, 2010-12.
Special Committee on Branch Campuses, 1991-92.
Presidential Task Force (on Greek System), 1992-93.
Provost's Task Force on Sexism, 1992-93.
Senate Parliamentarian, 1999-2000.
Special Committee on University of Washington Role and Mission, Chair, 1992.
Special Committee on Legislative Matters, Faculty Senate, 1992-99.
State of Washington Council of Faculty Representatives, UW representative, 1982-83; 1991-92
Faculty representative to the State of Washington's Higher Education
Coordinating Board's Faculty Workload Study Advisory Committee, 1993.
Faculty Senate Budget Committee, 1985-88, 1991-93; Chair, 1991-92.
Faculty Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting, 1993-99.
Task Force on Long Range Planning and Academic Program Plan, 1982.
University Budget Committee, 1992-93.
Capital Budget Committee, 1992-93.
Faculty Salary Policy Review Committee, 1988.
Services and Activities Fees Committee, Faculty Representative, 1988-89.
Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs, 1982-83; chair, 1982-83; 2005-08; 2016-20.
Task Force on Faculty Grievance Procedures, 1982-83.
Task Force on Faculty Code Procedures, 1991.
Secretary of the Faculty, 1994-99.
Annual Faculty Lecturer Committee, 1993-1998.
UW Emergency Policy Committee, 1995.
Provost Search Committee, 1995-96.
Administrative Council, 1996-99.
President's Council, 1996-99.
Advisory Board on Accountability, 1997-99.
Provost's ad hoc Committee on Faculty Rewards and Responsibilities, 1998.
Faculty Senate's Nominating Committee for Secretary of the Faculty, 2004-05, 2008; Chair, 2004-05.
AAUP Conference on Tenure, Panelist, April 3, 1998.
Board of Regents' Retreat, Panelist, April 4, 1998.
Advisory Committee on Faculty Code and Regulations, 1994--; Chair, 2007-09, 2010-15; 2019-20.
Adjudication Panel, member, 2004-10
Hearing Panels in Faculty Adjudications, member, 2004-05; 2006-07; 2008-10.
UW/2000 Faculty Committee, 1985.
UW/2000 Implementation Committee, 1986-90.
(Provost's) Working Group on Revising Faculty Salary Policy, 2009-10.
(President's) Faculty Salary Policy Working Group, 2012-15
Summer Quarter Advisory Board, 1987-90.
Panel on Graduate Education, Board of Regents' Work Sessions, December 7-8, 1992, contributing member.
"Faculty 'Managing' Faculty," Seminar for Staff Effectiveness Workshop, March 23, 1993.
Organizer and Chair of Panel on "Implications for the University of
Washington," for Training and Development Workshop: Leadership, Future
Prospects for Higher Education, June 10, 1993.
Chair, Faculty Senate Committee to review proposals of the International Studies Task Force, Winter 1997.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Committee, Director, 1975--
Graduate School Research Fund, Arts and Humanities Research Project Committee, 1979-80.
Graduate School Council, l989-91.
Pembroke College Fellowship Review Committee, 1991.
Graduate Student Grievance Committee, Chair, May 1991.
Textual Studies Research Committee, 1996--.
Textual Studies Program, Co-Director, 1997-2013.
Humanities Council, 1976-78.
Chair, Search Committee (Near Eastern Languages and Literature), 1981-82.
Review Committee (Near Eastern Languages and Literature), 1982.
Honors Council, 1985-89.
Chair, Search Committee (Asian Languages and Literature), 1986-87.
Advisory Board, Humanities and Arts Computing Center, 1986-89.
College Seminar on "Words and Deeds: The Rhetoric of History in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," organizer and director, Winter Quarter l989.
Facilities Advisory Committee, 1990-91.
Organizing Committee, Member: Humanities Center's 1992-93 Program "By Word of Mouth."
Organizing Committee for Textual Studies Inaugural Conference, October-November 1997.
Faculty Retirement Seminar, Co-Director (with Judith Howard), Jan-Mar 2020.
Freshman English Committee, 1973-75; chair, 1974-75
Executive Committee, 1975-77; 1979-80; 1982-83; 1985-86; 1990-91; 2004-06 chair, l985-86; 2004-05.
Director of Graduate Studies, 1987-90.
English Graduate Program Review Committee, Chair, 1986-87.
Placement Committee, 1981-82; 1984-85; chair, 1984-85.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1987-90, 2001-02.
Heilman Dissertation Award Committee, 1997.
Director of Undergraduate Programs, English, 2007-9.
Undergraduate Education Committee, 1993-94, January 2007-09, 2010-12; Chair, 2008-09.
Field Committee for English Language Education, 2008-9.
Placement Committee, 1981-82; 1984-85; chair, l984-85.
Tenure Review Committee (Don Bialostosky), 1982.
Tenure Review Committee (Sally Mussetter), chair, 1983.
Tenure Review Committee (Charles Schuster), chair, 1984.
Tenure Review Committee (Mark Patterson), 1986.
Tenure Review Committee (Paul Remley), chair, 1994.
Reappointment Committee (Colette Moore), chair, 2007.
Tenure Review Committee (Colette Moore), chair, 2010.
Search Committee (English Literature before 1500), Member, 1987.
Search Committee (Late-medieval English Literature), Member, 1998-99.
Salary Advisory Committee, member, 1999-2000.
Strategic Planning Committee, chair, 1999-2000.
Chair, 2012-15.
Executive Committee, 1975-76; l985-86, 2012-15.
Tenure Review Committee (Jean Dornbush), Summer-Fall l989.
Bylaws Revision Committee, 1993-94.
Board of Directors, 2016-2020.
Executive Committee, Board of Directors, 2016-2020.
First Vice President, 2017-2018.
President, 2018-2019.
Nominating Committee, Chair, 2019-2020.
Editorial Consultant, Modern Language Quarterly, l975--.
Editorial Board, Modern Language Quarterly, l988-93.
Local Arrangements Committee, Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, February 2l-22, 1975.
NEH Review Panel, Summer Stipends Program, Autumn 1983.
Local Arrangements Committee Chair, Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, Seattle, Washington, February l6-l8, l984.
"Irish Language and Literature," Respondent. Annual Meeting of American Committee for Irish Studies, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, April 27, l985.
Campus representative, Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, l985.
"Theory and Artifact: Art and Text," chair. Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April l8, l986.
"Middle English Tales and Tellers," chair. Annual Conference of Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Oregon, March 6, 1987.
Editorial Consultant, Theatre Journal, 1987-88.
NEH Review Panel, Summer Seminars for School Teachers, June l989.
Co-Chair, Program Committee (and Chair, Local Arrangements Committee) for 1992 International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Washington, August 1-4, 1992.
Local Arrangements Committee, Member: Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meetinç, April 22-25, 1993.
Local Arrangements Committee, Member, Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, March 4-6, 1994.
"Computer Editions: Obstacles and Opportunities," panel organizer and chair. Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, Seattle Washington, March 4, 1994.
Chair, Panel on Celtic Studies, MEMSOP Conference, University of Washington, February 1995.
Chair, Panel on 'Rhetoric and History,' at annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Victoria, 25 February 2000.
Consultation regarding two Elizabethan wills (Dixie Rushmer), Autumn 1995.
Editorial Consultant, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1995; 2007.
Editorial Consultant, Traditio, Summer 1996.
Board of Advisers, Philological Review, 2002--.
Referee, articles submitted to Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, 2004.
Reviewer, proposed electronic edition under review by Boydell and Brewer (and the Medieval Academy), 2004.
Annual Meeting of Medieval Academy of America (meeting jointly with the Medieval Association of the Pacific), Seattle, WA, Co-Chair, Program Committee, and Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, April 1-3, 2004.
Medieval Association of the Pacific, Annual Conference Program Organizing Committee, 2009-10.
"John Trevisa: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler" (Co-organizer and Session Chair) and "Piers Plowman: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler" (Co-organizer), 43nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 9 May 2008.
"Chaucer II: Self-Representation" (Session Chair), Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, University of Puget Sound, 6 March 2010.
"[Session 7]" (Session Chair), Fifth International Conference on Piers Plowman, Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford), 16 April 2011.
"Reconfiguring the Scholarly Editor: Textual Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle" (Organizer and Session Chair), Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 6 January 2012.
Chair, Organizing Committee, and Member, Program Committee, Sixth International Piers Plowman Conference, UW Seattle, 23-26 July, 2015.
Evaluator for the Outer Board of the Irish Research Council, 2019-2021.