Appointed to Editorial Board, The Mark Twain Annual, 2008

Faculty in Residence, UCDC, Spring 2006

Appointed to Editorial Board, Arizona Quarterly, 2002

Director, UKEAP, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998-99

Don D. Walker Prize for the Best Essay or Article
in Western American Literary Criticism, 1998

MLA and Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for
The New Western History: An Assessment, voted the best special issue of
an academic journal (the Arizona Quarterly), 1998

Associate Director, UKEAP, London, England, 1997-98

Visiting Professor of American Studies, University of Birmingham, England, 1996-97

Appointed to Advisory Board, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 1992

Fulbright Fellowship to Japan, 1986-87

Don D. Walker Prize for Best Essay or Article
in Western American Literary Criticism, 1979

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1972-73

Clark Fellowship, Harvard University, 1967

Cannaday Fellowship, Harvard University, 1967

Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, 1966-67