2007-2010. Président, A.F.E.L.S.H. (Association des facultés et établissements de lettres et de sciences humaines de langue française – Réseau institutionnel de l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie, Paris/Montréal. Conseiller présidentiel, 2010-2013.
2004-2009. Doyen / Dean, Faculté des Arts, Université d’Ottawa / Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa. A bilingual university. Seventeen academic units (Fine Arts, Language and Literature, Humanities). Annual budget in 2009 of $42m. 6,000 students, 240 full-time professors (70 hires 2004-2009).
Major initiatives:
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- Canada Research Chairs (Ethics, Religions in Canada, Collective Intelligence, Linguistics to the Defense of the Speech Community)
- Loeb Chair in the Bioethics of Organ and Tissue Donation in 2006
- Camões Visiting Professorship in 2006
- The School for Information Studies in 2007
- The Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute in 2007
- The Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program in 2007
- The Institute for Science, Society and Policy in 2009
- The Chair in Metis Studies in 2009
- Sustained commitment to fund-raising and development.
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1999-2006. Administrator, Fonlon-Nichols Award, African Literature Association. For African writers who have shown “creative achievement” alongside “defense of human rights and freedom of expression”.
1997-1998. Associate Dean of Arts, University of Alberta (Fine Arts and Humanities). Oversight of eight departments. Responsible for the development of the Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies and the U of A School in Cortona (Italy); Japan and Korea initiatives.
1998-1999. Acting Chair, Comparative Literature, Religion and Film Studies, University of Alberta.
1990-1995. Book Review Editor, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de littérature comparée.