Curriculum Vitae Victor Peppard
Education
1974 Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan Dissertation: “Nikolai N. Nikitin’s Style” Committee: Chair, Professor Asya Humesky, Professor Deming Brown, Professor Mark Suino
1968 M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University Thesis: “The Fantastic Realism of Andrei Sinyavsky”
1966 B.A. in History, Brown University
Employment
2001-2011 Chair, Department of World Languages, University of South Florida
2000-2001 Interim Chair, Department of World Language Education, University of South Florida
1996-1997 Acting Associate Director, Division of Languages and Linguistics, University of South Florida
1990-present Professor of Russian, University of South Florida
1979-1990 Associate Professor of Russian, University of South Florida
1975-1979 Assistant Professor of Russian, University of South Florida
1973 & 1974 Lecturer in Russian, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1969-1972 Teaching Fellow in Russian, University of Michigan
Publications: Books
Playing Politics: Soviet Sport Diplomacy to 1992. Russian and East European Studies, Vol. 3. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993. Victor Peppard and James Riordan.
The Poetics of Yury Olesha. University of Florida Humanities Monograph No. 63. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.
Night and Other Stories. By Nikolai Nikitin. Trans. & intro. Victor Peppard. Royal Oak, MI: Strathcona, 1978.
What it is like in the USA. Textbook on USA Area Studies. Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1998, rev eds. 2003, 2009. Natalia Tokareva and Victor Peppard.
Publications: Articles & Book Chapters
"Два дома одного искусства" (Two Houses of One Art). Marina Tsvetaeva House- Museum Cultural Center, 2018, Moscow: 190-200.
"Роман Е. И. Замятина Мы и его Судьба" (E. I. Zamyatin's Novel We and its Fate). Festschrift for Professor I. V. Kandakov's 70th Birthday from the Conference Literature in the System Culture, 2017, Moscow: 165-70.
"The Curious Story of Norman Mailer's Engagement with Short Fiction." The Mailer Review. Fall (2016): 310-17.
"Mailer, Nabokov, and the Amerussia / US-SU Phenomenon." The Mailer Review. Fall (2015): 133-47.
"Творчество В. Набокова в контексте русской классической литературы" (The Works of V. Nabokov in the Context of Russian Classical Literature) in Метрополия и диаспора: две ветви русской культуры (Homeland and Diaspora: Two Branches of Russian Culture), Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum Cultural Center, Moscow, 2015: 310-22.
Introduction to the Turkish collection of Petersburg Öyküleri (Petersburg Stories). By Nikolai Gogol, Turkey: Iletisism, 2015. Translation into Turkish of "Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text is it?" South Atlantic Review. 55. 1 (1990): 63-80.
“The Russian Reception of Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review. Fall (2013): 107-18,
"Марк Алданов и Вторая Мировая война" (Mark Aldanov and World War II) in Русское зарубежье и Вторая мировая война (Russian Emigres and World War II), Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum Cultural Center, Moscow, 2013: 198-210.
"Hemingway, Mailer, and the "Reds." The Mailer Review. Fall (2010): 229-42.
"Norman Mailer in the Light of Russian Literature." The Mailer Review. Fall (2009): 173-211.
"Babel's Fantastic Tales in the Tradition of Menippean Satire." Canadian Slavonic Papers. Vol. XLIX, Nos. 2-3, 2007: 69-85.
"The Problem of Revolutionary Violence in Isaak Babel's Stories." Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture, ed. Marcus Levitt and Tatyana Novikov. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007: 163-173.
"The Carnival World of Envy." Olesha's Envy. A Critical Companion. AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature. Ed. Rimgaila Salys. Evanston: Northwestern UP / American Association of Teachers of Slavic And East European Languages, 1999: 82-100.
"A Curricular Response to a Market Survey of Teachers' Needs." Preparing a Nation's Teachers. Models for English and Foreign Language Programs. Ed. P. Franklin, E. Welles, et alii. New York: Modern Languages Association, 1999: 221-40. With several colleagues; also edited..
"Жизненный опыт и абстрактное мышление на уроке инностранного языка" [Life Experience and Abstract Thinking in the Foreign Language Classroom]. Русский язык за рубежом [The Russian Language Abroad]. No. 4 (1998): 28-34. Co-author with Irena Nemchonok.
"A Response to 'Ideology, Narrative, and Identify: The Case of Elderly Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.'" Journal of Aging and Identity, I.4 (1996): 273-76.
"Uchim russkomu legko i veselo" [Teaching Russian the Fun and Easy Way]. Russian Language Journal XLVII. 159-161 (1994): 257-67. Co-author with Irena Nemchonok.
"Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text is it?" South Atlantic Review. 55. 1 (1990): 63-80.
"The Acoustic Dimensions of Crime and Punishment." Dostoevsky Studies 9 (1988): 143-55.
"A Comparative Analysis of Early East-West Sport Diplomacy." Comparative Physical Education and Sport. Vol. 5. Ed. Eric Broom, et alii. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1988: 149-55.
"A Comparison of Soviet Soccer and Hockey with Major American Sports." Comparative Physical Education and Sport. Vol. 3. Ed. M. Kkrotee and M. Jaeger. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1986: 227-35.
"Olesha's No Day Without a Line: A New Genre or an Old Trick?" Proceedings of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: Slavic Section III.1 (1985): 92-98.
"Gogolian Substrata in The Adventures of Chonkin." Russian Language Journal XXXVIII.131 (1984): 133-40.
"Olesha's Envy and the Carnival." Russian Literature and American Critics. Papers in Slavic Philology 4. Ed. Kenneth Brostrom. Ann Arbor: U Michigan, 1984: 179-89.
"The Beginnings of Russian Soccer." Stadion [German Journal of Sport History] VIII/IX (1982/83): 151-68
"The Use of Documents and Pseudo-Documents in Pil'njak's Golyi god." Russian Language Journal XXXVI. 124-125 (1982): 143-50.
"The Soviet Critique of Sport and Physical Culture." Quest 34.1 (1982): 23-33.
"The Structure of Solzhenitsyn's Stories." Russian Language Journal XXXII.112 (1979): 165-75
"Russian Literature and the Classroom." Russian Language Journal XXXI.110 (1977): 33-37.
"Nikolaj N. Nikitin and Ornamental Prose." Melbourne Slavonic Studies 8 (1973): 64-77.
"Brzekowski and Surrealism." The Polish Review XVI.4 (1971): 16-23.
Other Publications:
Encyclopedia Articles
"Babel, Isaac Emmanuilovich," Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, vol.1, ed. Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips. New York and London: Routledge, 2006: 99-101.
"Olesha, Yury Karlovich, "Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, vol. 2, ed. Gaëtan Brulotte Reprinted in Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Vol. 55, 1991 and John Phillips. New York and London: Routledge, 2006: 975-76 . "Nikolai Nikolaevich Nikitin," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 272: Russian ProseWriters Between the World Wars, ed. Christine Rydel. New York: Thomson Gale, 2003: 254-59.
"Iurii Karlovich Olesha," Dicitonary of Literary Biography, vol. 272: Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars, ed. Christine Rydel. New York: Thomson Gale, 2003: 260-284.
"Conflictlessness" [in Soviet Drama]. Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literatures. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1981: 233-37.
Reviews, Newspaper Articles
"How the New Order of Surveillance Really Works." Review article of Chameleo. A Strange But True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security. By Robert Guffey. New York, OR Books 2015. The Mailer Review. Fall (2015): 345-51.
“Putting on the ‘The Overcoat’.” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, vol.1, no. 2 (2011): 251-56. (Review article with essay appeared in Fall 2012.)
Review of Euphoria and Exhaustion: Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society. Ed. . Katzer et alii in The Russian Review, vol 70, No. 4, October 2011, 707-708.
Letter to Manchester Guardian Weekly on US reaction to perestroika, 19 March 1989. The Artist and the Creative Act: A Study of Jurij Olesha's Novel Zavist'. By Kazimiera Ingdahl. Russian Language Journal XL.135 (1986): 225-26.
Russian Poetry for Children. By Elena Sokol. Russian Language Journal XXXVIII.131 (1984): 287-89.
"Soviets Try to Hurt U.S. Without Harming Olympics." St. Petersburg Times, 13 May 1984: 1D+.
Putem vzaimnoj perepiski. By Vladimir Voinovich. Slavic and East European Journal 24.1 (1980): 72-73.
Nervous People and Other Stories. By Mikhail Zoshchenko. Studies in Contemporary Satire (1977): 65-69. With John R. Clark.
Creative Works
"The Boyscout Jamboree" (a short story). The Mailer Review, Fall (2014): 374-82.
"My Kind of Guy." Bolshoi Washington, 2001 (translation of Irena Nemchonok's sketch "Svoi paren'").
"Babel's Brighton Beach" (a short story). Northeast Corridor, Issue 7, 2000: 326 – 44.
"Zubol the Iceman" (a short story). Sunscripts 1998. Florida Suncoast Writers Conference Anthology: 71-75.
"Old Man Taylor" (a short story). Sunscripts. 23rd Annual Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference Anthology, 1995: 89-95.
"Sweet Dreams" and "Dry Wings" (Healing Fairytales). The World of Sleep. Chicago: Michael's Medical Publishing Co., 1995: 119-121. Co-author with Irena Nemchonok.
"Playing Hardball with the National Pastime" (a satirical article). The Tampa Tribune. 31 August 1985: 13-A.
Poetic Translations
"When from the murk of deception…" (translation of Nekrasov's poem). Dostoevsky. Notes from the Underground. Trans. Constance Garnett, ed. with intro. Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2009, 31.
"Empty Swings" (translation of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem "Pustye kacheli"). Pre- Morning. A New Book of Poetry in English and Russian. Ed. Albert Todd Baltimore: Vestnik Information Agency, 1995, 60, 62.
Invited Presentations
"Soviet Literature Today." Sixteenth Annual Forida Suncoast Writers' Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, January 1988
"Petersburg in Russian Literature." Symposium on "Soviet Union: Cultural Treasury of the Ages," Centennial of St. Petersburg, FL, February 1988
"Роман Е.И. Замятина "Мы" и его судьба." Литература в системе Культуры. К семидесятилетию профессора И.В. Кандакова. Москва, 22 февраля 2017 г. "E.I. Zamyatin's Novel We and its Fate." Literature in the System of Culture. For Professor I.V. Kandakov's 70th Birthday. Moscow, 22 April 2017
Conference Presentations
"Mailer and Babel on Being Jewish." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Monmouth University, Long Branch NJ, September 2016
"Два дома одного искусства" (Two Houses of the Same Art) at the Метрополия и диаспора: две ветвы русской культуры (Homeland and Diaspora: Two Branches of Russian Culture) Conference, Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum Cultural Center, Moscow, March 27, 2015
"Mailer, Nabokov and the Theme of Amerussia." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Wilkes University, October 2014
"What to Do after Tolstoy?" 21st Southeast Conference for Foreign Languages, literatures, and Film, University of South Florida, Tampa, February 2014
“Harlot’s Ghost: Further Reflections.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, October 2013
“Mailer and Solzhenitsyn: Arbiters of History.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, October 2013
“Эмигрировать можно, но покинуть родину нельзя: путь Набокова” (You may emigrate, but you can’t leave your homeland) at the Метрополия и диаспора: две ветвы русской культуры (Homeland and Diaspora: Two Branches of Russian Culture) Conference, Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum Cultural Center, Moscow, March 31, 2013.
“The Russian Reception of Norman Mailer.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2012
"Марк Алданов и Вторая Мировая война" (Mark Aldanov and World War II) at the Русское зарубежье и Вторая мировая война (Russian Emigres and World War II) Conference, Marina Tsvetaeva House Museum Cultural Center, Moscow, March 29, 2011 . "Hemingway, Mailer, and the "Reds." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Sarasota, October 2010
"Witches, Bodies, Doppelgangers,and Alienated Intellectuals: The Works of Nabokov, Makanin, and Tarkovsky." Comment (discussant) at Southern Conference On Slavic Studies, U Florida, Gainesville, March 2010
"20th Century Russia through Film." The 19th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film, USF Tampa, February 2010. With Darrell Slider
"Norman Mailer's Portrait of the Soviet Union in Harlot's Ghost and Oswald's Tale." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Washington, DC, October 2009
"The Coronation Digression – or is it? – in Castle in the Forest." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2008
"Getting the Story of Yeshua Straight: Mailer and Bulgakov." The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 2007 . "P'etsukh Probes the Classics," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, National Convention, Salt Lake City, November 2005
"The Spectrum of Violence in Babel's Stories," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, National Convention, Pittsburgh, November, 2002
"An Overview of Foreign Language Programs at Selected SUS Institutions," Florida Foreign Language Association, Orlando, October, 2002
"The Androgynous Eroticism of Babel and Olesha," Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Daytona Beach, March 2002
"Distance Education," Eurocall Videoconference between Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and USF, "Breaking Through the Boundaries of Space and Time: ICT in [Language] Education," September 1999
"Mir russkikh [The World of the Russians] – A Model Textbook." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton, September 1998
"The Sisterhood of Man and Woman: Babel’s Labyrinth of Love in 'My First Fee.'" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1998
"Evaluating LINGUANET: Pros and Cons of Distance Learning," CALICO, West Point, June 1998, with Finley Taylor
"Creating the Ideal Inter-University Distance Learning Program in Foreign Languages: Languages: Prospects and Realities." Second International Conference on Distance Education in Russia, Moscow, July 1996. Co-author with Irena Nemchonok. Read by Irina Tomofeevna of Moscow Linguistic University
"Bakhtin and 20th Century Russian Writers: Triangulating the Circle." The Bakhtin Circle Today, Dubrovnik, May 1989
"A Comparative Analysis of Early East-West Sport Diplomacy." Fifth International Symposium for Comparative Physical Education and Sport, Vancouver, May 1986
"Olesha's No Day Without a Line: A New Genre or an Old Trick?" Kentucky Foreign Conference, Lexington, April 1985
"Budget Dartmouth Method." South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Atlanta, Fall 1984
"Soviet Soccer Diplomacy, 1923." Transitions to Leisure, St. Petersburg, FL, January 1984
"Marxist Theories of Sport." Southeast Marxist Scholars Conference, Tampa, Spring 1983
"The Tonality of Crime and Punishment." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1983
"The Study of Soviet Sport." International Society on Comparative Physical Education and Sport, Minneapolis, July 1982
"Modern Literary Fairy Tales." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Langauges, New York, December 1982
"Olesha Goes to the Soccer Match." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1981
"Cultural Implications of Soviet Sport." New College Conference on Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Sarasota, March 1981
"Soviet – American Sport: A Comparative View." Sport in American Culture, Tampa, April 1980
"The Role of Sport in Soviet Culture." Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, New Orleans, October 1979
"Voinovich and the Russian Satirical Tradition." Kentucky Foreign Lanugage Conference, Lexington, April 1979
"Erofeev's Novel Moskva-Petushki." AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1977
"Structural Patterns in Solzhenitsyn's Stories." SAMLA, Washington, DC, November 1977
"Dostoevsky's 'Double': The Fantastic Made Real." Florida Chapter of AATSEEL, Tampa, October 1977
"The Use of Documents in Pil'njak and Nikitin." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington April 1977
"Mother Goose in Mother Russia." Florida Chapter of AATSEEL, Orlando, October 1976
"Nikitin and Ornamentalism in Early Soviet Prose." Australasian Universities Languages and Literatures Association, Sydney, August 1973
Courses Taught and Other Instructional Activity
Undergraduate
Russian Language – all courses at all levels RUS 1220, 1221 (5 credits); RUS 2220. 2221 (4 credits) RUS 3240 Conversation I (4 credits), RUS 4241 Conversation II (4 credits) RUS 4900 Special Topics (3 credits); RUS 4905 Independent Studies (3 credits); LIN 4930 Comparative Translation in Literature and Film (3 credits)
Russian Literature RUT 3110 Russian Classics in English (3 credits) RUT 3111 20th Century Russian Literature in English (3 credits) RUS 4900 Dostoevsky (3 credits, RUS 4900 Tolstoy (3 credits) RUS 4900 Solzhenitsyn (3 credits)
Russian Culture: RUS 3500 Russian Civilization (3 credits)
Graduate
LIN 6932 Comparative Translation in Literature and Film (3 credits)
Interdisciplinary Teaching Co-Instructor, "Comparative Translation in Literature and Film," with colleague from English undergraduate and graduate
Co-Instructor, RUS 4900 "Russian through Film," with colleagues from History and International Relations
Co-Instructor, Russian Culture in connection with Treasures of the Tsars Exhibit with colleagues from English and History (Eckerd College) Spring 1994
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees as member or chair or defense, in English Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Linguistics (ca 35)
M.A. Thesis Committees in English literature, History, Linguistics, Political Science (ca 12)
Honors Thesis Committees in History and Russian (4)
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2008-2010 Contract Title: Critical Languages Project (Persian-Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Pashto) Contract Purpose: Research Amount: $4.5 million, Defense Language Institute, Sep 2008-2010 (Co-PI)
2008-2009 Contract Title: USF ROTC Language and Culture Program Contract Purpose : Research Contract Decription : USF ROTC Language and Culture Program Amount : $50,000.00, Institute of International Education
2007-2008 Contract Title: Critical Languages Project in Arabic Contract Purpose: Research Amount: $1.2 million Defense Language Institute (Co-PI)
2002, 1997,1996,1995 Fulbright-Hays and Title VI reader
1996 USF Teaching Incentive Program Award
1993 USF Teaching Incentive Program Award
1993 AAHE's Forum on Exemplary Teaching, Washington, DC
1990 USF special grant to observe elections, Republic of Georgia
1986 USF Research Council, Faculty Foreign Travel Grant
1984 NEH Travel Grant to Collections
1980 NEH Fellowship for "Age of Stalin" Seminar at U Mass, Amherst
Directory of American Scholars. International Directory of Scholars
Service to the Profession
2010, 2004-2008 Member Editorial Board (online Russian studies journal) Vestnik
2006 Consultant Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Sport Diplomacy
2004 Referee for promotion candidate, University of Nebraska, Omaha
2004 Referee for scholarly article, ADFL Bulletin
1984-2001 Member Advisory Board, Russian Language Journal
2001 Referee for scholarly article, Canadian Slavonic Papers
1995-96 Member USF delegation to the MLA Teacher Education Project
1994 Referee for promotion candidate at Arizona State University
1991 Referee for scholarly article, South Atlantic Review
1990 Referee for scholarly article, Journal of International Education
1990 Official International Observer, Republic of Georgia Elections
1989 Field Tester of ETS comprehensive proficiency Russian tests
1989 Consultant on book ms for U Florida Press
1987-88 Referee for scholarly articles, Slavic Review
1985-86 Member, Editorial Board, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Proceedings, Slavic Section
1982 and 1986 Consultant on two ms for USF Press
1980 and 1983 Referee for scholarly articles, Slavic and East European Journal
1977 Host Florida Chapter of AATSEEL, Tampa
Service to the University
2000-2011 Foreign Language Leaders Committee, (with Tampa Bay High School Language Coordinators)
2005-2009 Member University Outcomes Assessment Committee
2007-2009 Member General Education Committee
2006, 2001-2003 Humanities Representative, Chairs’ Steering Committee, College of Arts and Sciences
2005-2006 College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education, Committee on MATs
2006 "The Underground Man Takes on All Comers," Phi Sigma Iota Initiation
2005 Humanities Representative, USF Exchange with University of Malaysia, Sarawak
1999-2005 Advisor and Host US State Department's Junior Faculty Development Program
2005 Year of Languages organizing committee
2004 Chekhov Centennial Celebration, World Languages and Theatre Department, organizer and (bad) actor in "The Boor"
2003 Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Emeritus Status
2003 USF Representative at 80th Jubilee of Dagestani writer Rasul Gamzatov, Moscow
1997-2000 Convener, Departmental Salary, Tenure, and Promotion Committee
1999-2000 Chair, Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Broadcast Station Recommendations
1999 Consultant and participant in Bob Breynan's production of The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Department (Brit Program)
1999 Consultant and speaker on Nancy Cole's production of Chekhov's Wild Honey
1998 Consultant on Denis Calandra's production of Brendan Behan's The Hostage
1997-99, 1993-95, 1989-91 Faculty Senate; 1990-91 Senate Executive Committee
Honors Program Advisory Committee, 1997-99
University Task Force on Culture and the Arts, 1998-99
University Task Force on International Affairs, 1998-99
Search Committee for Dean of International Affairs, 1998-99
Committee on Department's Future, 1998-99
Interview with student newspaper The Oracle on department's resolutions on war in Kosovo, 14 April 1999
1997 Special Committee on Sustained Performance Evaluation
1994 and 1982 Grievance representative United Faculty of Florida (Bargaining Agent: 1990 and 1984 Vice President USF Chapter, State Senator, 1987 and 1982, Secretary, 1980-81
1994-96 College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council
1995-96 Department of History’s Selection Committee for Russian historian
1990-96 Departmental Executive Committee
1996 Sponsor with Music faculty of Russian pianist Margarita Fyodorova’s visit To USF
1993 Interpreter for talk by Russian dissidents
1992-94 College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee
1991-93 USF General Education Committee
1990-93 USF Athletic Advisory Council
1993 Chair Departmental Committee on Summer Intensive Language Courses 1991 Interpreter for visitors from Tbilisi, Georgia to Florida Mental Health Institute
1991 USF Committee on International Education
1990 Interpreter for three talks by V. Davydov, Director Stanislavsky Museum
1990 Interpreter for USF Graphic Studio and Art Museum Exchange with Soviet Artists' Union
1989 Interpreter for Friendship Force Leningrad Tour of USF Medical Complex and Moffit Cander Center
1998 Departmental representative for Faculty-Staff Scholarship Fund
1989 Interpreter and Translator for USF's Graphic Studio's signing of exchange with Soviet Artists' Union, Washington, DC
1987-89 Arts and Letters Tenure and Promotion Committee
1988 Organizer of Russian scholar Viktor Shnirelman's visit and lecture on Soviet Ethnic Minorities
1987 Organizer of Russian poet Evgeny Evtushenko's Open Forum and Poetry Reading
1986-87 Departmental Salary, Tenure, and Promotion Committee (chair SII, 1987)
1986 Peer Review Committee, Arts and Letters and Fine Arts
1985 University Peer Review Committee, Research and Creative Scholarship Program
1984 Department of Religious Studies Faculty Search Committee
1983 Participant Colloquium with Paul Warnke on foreign policy
1980-82 Arts and Letters College Council
1981 Sponsor of Walenty Cukierman's talk on Poland and Solidarity
1980-81, 1976 Arts and Letters Honors and Awards Committee
1980-81, 1977-78 Arts and Letters Travel Committee
1976-78 Foreign Language Curriculum Committee
United Faculty of Florida (Bargaining Agent): Vice President USF Chapter, 1990 and 1984, State Senator, 1987 and 1982, Grievance representative, 1994 and 1982, Secretary, 1980-81
1977 Participant Foreign Forum "The Kremlin Leadership Today"
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