Organization Southern Literary Journal

Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)

The Hopkins Review (editor)

American Studies Association (executive secretary)

Hollins University (professor)

Hollins Critic (founder and editor)

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (founder, president, and editorial director)

Johns Hopkins University (instructor)

University of North Carolina (professor)

Louisiana State University Press (editor)

University of North Carolina Press (advisory editor)

Mississippi Quarterly (editorial board)

U.S. Information Agency Forums (co-ordinator)