Professional Activities

• Poetics
• Research in the Teaching of English
• Publication Board, STLHE
• English Quarterly
• English Education
• Reader
• Inkshed
• SPIEL (Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft)

• 1968-72 Co-initiated and participated in revision of English department curriculum
• 1976-78 Chair, STU Senate Language Competence Committe (Principal drafter of  report, 6 March 1978)
• 1980-81 As secretary of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English, conducted survey and wrote report on English Departments and Writing Programs in Canada (May 1981)
• 1978-82 Writing Program at STU (co-designer of program)
• 1982-1984 Inkshed Confererence Organizer
• 1983- Instituted and continued to develop "collaborative investigation" as my fundamental teaching strategy
• 1984 - present Active and continuing involvement in the development of the "Inkshed group," later the Canadian Association for the study of Language and Learning
• 1991-92 As Acting Vice-President (Academic), instituted Learning and Teaching Development Office
• 1992-93 Participated in study group on the English Department's first year course; principal author of English Department "Statement on English 1-200"
• 1992-95 STU's first Learning and Teaching Development Officer
• 1992-95 Participated in Ad Hoc Committee on the First Year Curriculum; principal drafter of the Aquinas Proposal
• 1993-94 Participated in the creation, design and delivery of the "Truth in Society" section of the Aquinas Program
• 1994-present Participated in the teaching and continuing development of "Truth in Society."
• 1995 Member, principal drafter of report, English Language Review Committee, Bishop's University
• 1995 Member, Advisory committee on the Bachelor of Education Program
• 1996-97 Local arrangements committee, program committee, and conference Web site owner, 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives
• 1997-present Member, Environmental Studies Working Group
• 1998-99 Member, Joint Committee on Workload and Class Size
• 1998 Took over as "listowner" of the listserv of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• 2000-01, 2003-04 Member, Advisory Committee on Information Technology
• 2000- 02 Member, Information Technology in Teaching Committee

• Inkshed 19 Conference Web site and archive
• CASLL / Inkshed main site
• STLHE 2000 Conference Archive Web site
• Aquinas Programme Web site
• Inkshed 2000 Live Archive
• Inkshed 16 conference Web site
• Inkshed 15 conference Web site and archive
• ISETA Conference Web site and archive

• Written Communication
• Research in the Teaching of English
• Reader
• Conference on College Composition and Communication

Owner & originator:

• Arts News (ArtsAlliance@stu.ca) (Fredericton Arts Alliance Newsletter) (March 2003 - )
• CASLL@UNB.CA (Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning List) (1995- )
• AAUFD-L@UNB.CA (Association of Atlantic Universities Faculty Development Committee List) (1994-2002)

Listowner & maintainer (1998 - )

• STLHE-L@UNB.CA (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education List)

Active membership:

• POD (Professional and Organizational Development)
• C18-L (Eighteenth Century Literature)
• Teaching Composition (McGraw-Hill)
• TechRhet (Association for Computers and Writing)
• LEARNCOM (Learning Communities Leaders' List)
• LSTOWN-L (Listserv list owners' discussion list)
• FYE-LIST (First Year Experience Discussion List)
• FYA-LIST (First Year Assessment Discussion List)
• CRTNET (Communication Research and Theory Network)
• writing-dev-he (Writing Development in Higher Education -- UK)
• College-talk (NCTE list for college and university teachers of English)
• DEWEY-L (Discussion of John Dewey)
• AERA lists (American Educational Research Association Lists: AERA-B, AERA-G, AERA-J)
• WRICOM (Writing and Computers European Network)

• Member, Advisory Committee on Information Technology, 2003 - 04
• Chair, Standing Grievance Committee, 2002 -
• Member, Committe on Academic Staff, 2001 - 02
• Secretary, Advisory Committee on Information Technology, 2000 - 01
• Information Technology in Teaching Committee, 2000 - 3
• Chair, Standing Grievance Committee, 2000 - 01
• Web site advisory committee, 2000 -
• Member, Joint Committee on Workload and Class Size, 1998 - 99
• Member, Board of Directors, Centre for Research on Youth at Risk, 1998 - 2002
• Secretary, President's Advisory Committee on Theatre at St. Thomas University, 1993 -
• Member, Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the First Year program ("Aquinas Committee"), 1992 - 5
• Member, Academic Computing Committee, 1992 - 5
• Chair or Secretary, Learning and Teaching Development Committee, 1992 - 5
• Member, Advisory committee on the Bachelor of Education Program, 1995
• Member, President's Advisory Committee on the Growth and Future of the University, 1990 - 91

• Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft (Founding member; Executive Committee 1996-8)
• Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (Founding member; Executive Committee 1997-2001)
• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education