Education & Teaching

2005 - present: Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2002 - 2005: Director of Initiatives in the Humanities, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1998 – 2005: Professor of English and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1997 – 98: Professor of English and Writer in Residence, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1994 – 97: Professor of English, Writer in Residence, and Co-Director of Creative Writing Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1992 - 94: Writer-in-Residence and Co-Director of Creative Writing Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1990 - 92: Visiting Writer, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1989: Writer-in-Residence, University of Stockholm, Sweden
1987: Writer-in-Residence, Literary Criterion Centre, University of Mysore, India
1980 - 82: Writer-in-Residence, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Factory Arts Centre, London

2005 - 2006: Visiting Professor of English and Weiss International Fellow in Literature and the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
1999 and 2000: Visiting Professor in the Humanities, University of the West Indies, Barbados
1994: Writer-in-Residence, National Institute of Education, Singapore
1993 Fall: Visiting Professor of English, New York University, New York, NY
1992 and 1993: Visiting Writer, Humber College, Toronto, Canada
1991: Visiting Lecturer, University of Poznan, Poland
1990: Visiting Lecturer, University of Ghana, Ghana
1983 - 1995: Writing Instructor, Arvon Foundation, England