Service to French Program Organizer, French and Francophone Film Festival, 2005, 2002 and 1998. Organizer, Francophone Summit: 2000 and 1998. The Francophone Summit brought over 550 (1998) and 250 (2000) students studying French from six local area high schools to the CSU San Bernardino campus for a day of French language immersion and cultural activities. Service to Department of World Languages & Literatures Co-Chair, “Language Means Business” Day (Feb. 2008). Twenty-five presenters speak about careers in foreign languages; event attended by over 800 students (including students from local high schools). Chair, Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2000-2002 and 2005-2011) Chair, Part-Time Lecturer Evaluation Committee (2005-2011) Member, Recruitment Committee (1994-1995; 1999-2000; 2006-2008; 2010-2011) Member, Faculty Merit Increase Committee (1999-2001) Board Member, Center for Advancement of Second Language Acquisition, 1999-2000. Service to College of Arts and Letters Co-Founder, Language, Gender, and Sexuality study group (LGS) for Arts & Letters faculty; as part of the Center for Prose Studies (2008-present). Organized and got funding for speakers: • Dr. Analouise Keating, “Reaching through the Wound: Transformational Identity Politics for the Twenty-First Century.” 16 April 2009. • Dr. Victor Villaneuva, “Writing and the Forgotten Canon of Memory.” 8 Oct. 2008. Faculty Marshal, Commencement (2000-2001 and 2003-2008) Co-Chair (with Tom Moody, Department of Philosophy), Three-Year Review Committee of the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (2003-2004). Chair, College Evaluation Committee (2003-2004). Member, College Professional Awards Committee (2000-2003) Service to the University Member, Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee (2002-2006 and 2008-2010). Chair of committee 2005-2006. Member, University Diversity Committee (2001-2003). Member, Search Committee, Director of Ombuds Services and Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Officer (2006-07). Member, Intellectual Life and Visiting Scholars Committee (1996-1998). Faculty Recruiter and Interviewer, CSU International Programs (1994-2011). Administrator, Gay and Lesbian Scholarship offered by Language & Sexuality Study Group of the Center for Prose Studies (2006-2008). Service to the CSU System CSU San Bernardino Representative, Academic Council on International Programs (1994-2000 and 2013-2015), an academic advisory board to the Director of International Programs and the Chancellor. Sub-committee member, Faculty Affairs Committee charged with hiring Resident Directors for France, Italy, Japan, and China programs. Founding Member, French Consortium: The French faculty of the CSU Quarter Campuses (CSU San Bernardino, CSU Bakersfield, CSU Los Angeles, CAL Poly Pomona, and CSU San Luis Obispo) formed a consortium to help offer a French minor or major at all campuses by sharing upper-division online courses. After funding was cut for the Consortium activities, CSU San Bernardino, Pomona and LA have continued to work together. 2000 to present. Service to the Profession Manuscript Reviewer, Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2011); History of Sexuality Review (2009); Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2010); Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2012, 2008, 2008); University of Delaware Press (2008); Women in French (2007). Grant Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008) Outside Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Baylor University (Fall 2013). Outside Reviewer, Promotion to Full Professor, University of New Hampshire (Fall 2010). Outside Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Georgetown University (Fall 2007). Outside Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of North Texas (Fall 2007). Co-Chair, Lesbian and Gay Caucus of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2005-2008). Organized academic and professional conference sessions; organized cash bar and dinner. Executive Board Member, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS) (1999-2000). Conference Organization Program Committee Member, 2003 conference of WSECS, The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. February 2003 Co-Organizer, Women’s Studies Conference on Student Research, CSU San Bernardino. 3 March 2001. Co-Chair, 1999 conference of WSECS, CSU San Bernardino. February 1999. With Dr. Treadwell Ruml, Department of English. Conference Session Chair “Women and Honnêteté in Ancien Regime France,” Western Society for French History, Montreal, CA, Nov. 2008. “Politics, Power, and Eros,” ASECS, Portland, OR, 2008. “Building Community in Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies” ASECS, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007. “Aesthetics and Eroticism,” ASECS, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007. “New Queer Methods and Texts,” ASECS, Montreal, CA, 2006. “In and Out Around the Academy.” ASECS, Montreal, CA, 2006. “Relectures de Zilia,” Françoise de Graffigny: Nouvelles Approches, Trinity College, Oxford University, UK. 19-22 Sept. 2002. “Writing and Publishing in the Long Eighteenth Century,” WSECS, Chapman University. 15-17 Feb. 15-17. “Visual and Verbal Family Narratives,” WSECS, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 25-27 Feb. 2000. “Takes and Retakes: Mutual Influences of French and English Women Writers,” WSECS, UC Berkeley. 14-16 Feb. 1997. Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile, Palm Springs, April 6-8, 1995. “Behn’s Sources and Translations,” Aphra Behn Society, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. 7-9 Oct. 1994.

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