I am a former president of UERU and served as UERU's liaison to the Boyer 2030 Commission and the principal author of its report. From 2012-2019 I served as the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Boston University where I am now Special Advisor to the Provost and Professor of English emerita. Previously, I was Professor of English and held various administrative positions at the University of Maryland, College Park. In my scholarly life, I teach and write about 20th-century poetry, especially its relations to the visual arts.