VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
University of Tartu
October 2016
Visiting Professor, School of Comparative Literature
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
November 2015
Visiting Professor, Department of American Studies
University of Macerata (Italy)
October 2015-January 2016
Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnography
University of Lille (France)
September 2015
Visiting Professor, Department of Foreign Languages,
University of Pune (India)
March 2014
Visiting Professor, School of Translation Studies and Training,
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (India)
October 2012.
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), March 2011
Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnology
University of Lille (France)
October –December 2008
ASSOCIATION SERVICE
Administrative Experience
Honorary President, International Comparative Literature Association, 2006-
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Comparative Literature 2017-20
President, International Comparative Literature Association, 2005-6
Editor, Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research 2012-2015
Co-Editor, Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research, 2011-12
Editor, The Comparatist. 2007-2011
Department Head, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, 1999-2002
University of Georgia, Department of Comparative Literature, Professor 1999-
Teaching Experience
University of Illinois, Program in Comparative Literature
Associate Professor, August 1995-1999
University of Illinois, Program in Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor, January 1994-July 1995
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of Comparative Studies
Assistant Professor, September 1988-1993
University of Poona (India), Research Fellow
Department of English, October 1992- November 1993
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Minority Recruitment Visiting Assistant Professor,
Comparative Literature and German Departments
June 1989- August 1989
Cornell University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Comparative Literature
August 1986- August 1988
University of Chicago, Instructor
Romance Languages and Literatures
October 1984- June 1986
Research Abroad
University of Macerata (Italy), Research Fellow
Matteo Ricci Institute
October 1, 2015 - January 1 2016
University of Poona (India), English Department
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Pune (India) 1992-93
Institut fur Indologie and Iranistik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, 1983-84
Dissertation research at the Biblioteca Marciana,
Venice, Winter 1984
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1976-77
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Section des Sciences Religieuses,
Université de Paris-Nanterre, 1974- 75