Organization English Association

Glasgow School of Art (BA illustration option | deviser and course leader | 1990)

Royal New Zealand Artillery (WWII)

Oxford University

Oxford University Press

British Text Society

Association of University Teachers

Leicester University (lecturer | fifteen years | professor | head of department | dean | visiting professor of medieval literature)

Stanford University (Robert Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities | Professor of English | Courtesy Professor of German Studies | Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education)

Florida State University

Leeds University

Society of Antiquaries (fellow)

Royal Historical Society (fellow)

Learned Society of Wales (fellow | 2020)

Pembroke College, Oxford University

Westminster College, Oxford University

University of Leeds

University of Edinburgh

Ruskin Society

Royal Australian Historical Society ( [1948])

Fort Street Public School

Sydney Technical College

Sydney P.E.N. Club

Fellowship of Australian Writers

Junior Theatre League

Impressionist Theatre

Commonwealth Literary Fund

Public Library of New South Wales (trustee)

Literary Society

National Trust, UK

Charity Organisation Society

The Quartely Review

British Association for Romantic Studies

Northumbria University

University of Glasgow

Higher Education Academy

Doshisha University, Kyoto

Kyoto University

University of Oxford

British Association of Romantic Studies

Japanese Association of English Romanticism

George Borrow Society

Dickens Fellowship (of Japan)