1988-93 Founding Co-editor: Pretexts: Studies in Culture and Writing, University of Cape Town.

1990 Member of the panel of judges for the Thomas Pringle Award for the Best South African Literary Article in English.

1993- Member of the Editorial Board of Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Grahamstown.

1993- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Literary Studies, Pretoria.

1994- Member of the Editorial Board of Pretexts: Studies in Writing and Culture.

1994- Reader for Research in African Literatures, Ohio, USA.

1996- Member of the Editorial Board of SHAKSPER: An International Electronic Shakespeare Conference.

Member of the Editorial Board of Language Sciences.

1999- Reader for Shakespeare Quarterly.

2002- Reader for Literator. Member of the Editorial Board of Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Reader for Comparative Literature.

2004- Reader for Shakespeare

2005- Member of the Editorial Board of the Shakespeare Quarterly

2009- Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly

2009- Member of the Advisory Board of the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare programme, George Washington University, Washington DC.

2010 Guest editor, Shakespeare International Yearbook 10.

2012 Invited member of the working group on a Global Shakespeare programme, Queen Mary College, London and the University of Warwick.