Leadership in Organizations

• Chair, Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, Delegate Assembly, MLA,  2003-2004.
• Vice President, President-Elect, President, and Past President, NCTE,1998-2002.
• Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1991-1993.
• Chair, Executive Committee, MLA Division on Teaching as a Profession, 1997-1998, Committee Member, 1994-1997.
• Chair, Executive Committee, MLA Division on the Teaching of Writing, 1989-90, Committee Member, 1986-1989.
• Founding Director, Puget Sound Writing Project (a site of the National Writing Project), University of Washington, 1978-1987.