Administrative Experience

Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Lamar University, 2001–07

Associate Vice-President of Research, Lamar University, 2001-06

Department Head, Department of English and Modern Languages, WTAMU, 1994-2001

Dean, Division of Humanities, Indiana University Southeast, 1993-94

Chair, Department of Humanities, New Mexico Tech, 1984-87

Teaching Experience

Professor, Lamar University, 2001-07

Professor, West Texas A&M University, 1994-2001

Professor, Indiana University Southeast, 1993-94

Associate Professor, New Mexico Tech, 1976-93

Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1975-76

University Teaching Fellow, Texas Christian University, 1970-75

Professional Experience

President, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2008-09

Director, West Texas A&M University Summer Writing Program, 1995-2001

President, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, 1998-2000

President, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1995-97

Editor, New Mexico Humanities Review, 1978-93

Director, Swift Lizard book distribution project, 1979-86

Editor, Saurian Press, 1980

Literary Arts Panel, Texas Commission on the Arts, 2005-07

Executive Council, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1991-92, 1999-2002, 2006-10

Executive Council, Texas Institute of Letters, 2002-06

Poetry Editor, Concho River Review, 1999-present

Board of Directors, Amarillo Bay (literary magazine), 1999-2007

Editorial Board, New Texas, 1998-2003

Manuscript Evaluator, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 1997-2002

Committee member, Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year nominating committee, Texas

College English Association, 2001-02

Executive Council, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1997-2000

Secretary, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1997-99

President’s Council on the Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, 1993-94

Literature Panel, New Mexico Arts Division, 1986-89