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E. BOARD APPOINTMENTS / COMMUNITY SERVICE / UNIVERSITY SERVICE

1. Board of La Jolla Country Day School, 1971-73.

2. Founded Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project (at UCI Irvine: Greek literature in the computer data bank), 1972.

3. National Board of Advisors to American Biographical Institute, 1982-84.

4. Board of Centrum, 1982-84.

5. Board of Hellenic University Club, 1982-84.

6. Foundation Board of Scripps Hospital, Head of Science, Medicine and Health Lecture Series, 1982-88.

7. Governing Board of TLG Project, University of California, Irvine, 1982-present.

8. Founded McDonald Center (Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Abuse) – Scripps Memorial Hospitals, 1984.

9. Board McDonald Center, 1984-present.

10. International President, Women’s International Center, 1984- present.

11. Board of American College of Greece, 1984-90.

12. La Jolla Playhouse Board 1984-86.

13. Board of U.C.S.D. Cancer Center, 1984-86.

14. President, U.C.S.D. Friends of Music, 1984-86.

15. 25th Anniversary Planning Committee for U.C.S.D., 1984.

16. Established Hajime Mori Chair for Japanese Studies, U.C.S.D., 1985.

17. U.C.S.D. Friends of the Library, 1985-90.

18. San Diego Woman’s Newspaper, 1985-88.

19. Board of Overseers, U.C.S.D., 1985-98.

20. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1986- present.

21. Founder and President, Greek Language Foundation: Thisauros tis Hellenikis Glossis (expansion of the Greek computer data bank), 1987-1996.

22. President, Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1990-96; Chairman, 1995-present.

23. Library of America, 1990-93.

24. Editorial board of Raritan, 1990–present.

25. Sledgehammer Theatre, 1999-present.

26. Founded Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae Project (With Royal Irish Academy in Dublin: to put Gaelic texts into a computer data bank) 1991. On Advisory Board 1991-96.

27. Editorial board TheatreForum 1991-94; Advisory board, 1994- present.

28. Editorial board Didaskalia 1994-present.

29. American Ireland Fund, 1994-present.

30. Member Royal Irish Academy 1994-present.

31. President, Desmi, Center for Research and Practical Realization of Ancient Greek Drama, Athens, 1995-present.

32. Opening of house in Athens for the THEG (Thisauros tis Ellinikis Glossis) Project, September, 1995.

33. Dean's Committee for the Humanities, 1996-2001.

34. Chair: Fundraising and Publicity for Planning Committee for "Black Women Writers and the High Art of Afro-American Letters" Conference. May 15-17, 1998.

35. Member, Advisory Council for San Diego Performing Arts League, 1998.

36. Talks at Rancho Santa Fe School to grade school students on mythology, 1997-98.

37. Dissertation committees, exams for University of California, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees: Nakissa Etemad (M.A., Theatre, 1997); Andrea Watson (M.A., Theatre, 1998); Abbie Cory (M.A., Literature, 1998); Kristie Wilson (Ph.D., Literature, 1999); University of Ulster: Ella O' Dwyer (Ph.D., English, 1998); University College Dublin: Kelly Younger (Ph.D., Theatre, 1998).

38. Representative from UCSD on Ph.D. committee for Classics (Riverside, UCI, and UCSD, 1998-9).

39. Representative with others on Ph.D. committee for Theatre (UCSD and UCI, 1998-9).

40. Two hour seminar for students from Sam Diego Jewish Academy in La Jolla on Ancient Greek Theatre, Dance and Music, Spring 1999.

41 "Interview with Seamus Heaney." La Jolla; UCSD TV Archives, Feb. 1999.

42. Taught a seven week course at University of Cork with Athol Fugard on "Fugard's Women"
and "Antigones: Sophocles and Others." (See D. 65) (July, 1999).

43. Teaching a ten week course on "Cool Classics and Irish Fire: Irish Playwrights and
Greek Tragedy" at University College Dublin, Fulbright Grant. (See D. 69).

44. Member of two committees at the American Philological Association, one on performance
and one on research projects (1998-2002).

45. Advisor to Spyros Mercouris (Greece) with a project to computerize ancient Greek theatres. (1999-present).

46. Advisor to both Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae
(two computer projects, one at UCI and one in Ireland), two projects I founded.

47. Dissertation/Doctoral Chair: Christopher Berchild, 2001-;

48. Dissertation/Doctoral Committee: Carla Kirkwood, 2001 -.

49. Dissertation/Doctoral Committee: Kate Booth, 2001-.

50. Dissertation Doctoral Committee: Virginie Magnat, 2001-.

51. Dissertation/Doctoral Committee: Antonia Glenn, 2002-.

52. Writing letters for faculty for promotions, recommendations for jobs.

53. Writing letters for students.

54. Member of committee to review the Visual Arts Program, UCSD, 2001-2002.

55. Dissertation/Doctoral Chair: Colette Kavanaugh, Pacifica Graduate Institute 2002-.

56. Advising Eric Bowling for his production of the Oresteia, 2002- 2003.

57. APA (American Philological Association) Development Committee 2002-

58. APA Research Committee, 2002-

59. Teaching a fall course with Athol Fugard at Trinity College, Dublin on "Modern Versions of Ancient Greek Tragedy," 2002.

60. Teaching a fall course with Athol Fugard at University College Dublin on "Irish Versions of Ancient Greek Tragedy," 2002.

61. American Philological Association Development Committee, 2002-.

62. American Philological Association Research Committee, 2002-.

63. Teaching a spring and fall course with grad student Antonia Nakano Glenn: "Japanese Films: Myths, Mysteries and The Samurai Code," 2003.

64. Dissertation/doctoral committee for Paul Backer, 2003.

65. Teaching a fall course for ICL on Mythology and Opera. 2003.

66. Advisory committee for McDonald Center to combat alcoholism and drug abuse, 2003-

67. Board appointment for AART, Asian American Repertory Theatre.

68. Companion of Honour, Defensor Elegentiae, International BiographicalCentre, Cambridge, England, 2003

69. Living Legends, International biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2003.

70. For Perpetuating the Greek Language, The Hellenic Cultural Society of San Diego, March 9, 2003.

71. Children of Heracles, CRITIC'S PICK, San Diego Union-Tribune, July, 2003.

72. "Women Who Make Theatre Happen Award," Sledgehammer Theatre, August 23.

73. It Takes a Community Award," New Path, and Mental Health Association, September 6, 2003.

74. Outreach Prize Committee for American Philological Association, 2003.

75. Head of Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Summer Neilson, 2003-.

76. Head of Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Heather Donahoe 2004-.

77. Writing evaluation for Nursing Staff for Scripps Memorial Hospitals so that they could become members of the Magnet system, 2004.

78. Evaluation for Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Science of a project called Dionysus in Ireland: Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy submitted by Professor Brian Arkins, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004.

79. Head of Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Michael Jaros, 2005-.

80. Writing for a program about wine for a sale of wines that will benefit Scripps Memorial Hospitals, 2005.

81. “Dionysus Strikes Back: Politics in Greek Tragedy,” Annual Burnett Seminar at San Diego State University (Monday, April 25, 2005).

82. “Thoroughly Modern Medea,” Gail A. Burnett Lecture in Classics at San Diego State University (Monday, April 25, 2005).

83. Offering lectures to invited student Groups who saw my translation of Sophocles’ Antigone (2005) at 6th at Penn Theatre.

84. June 10th lecture on “Does Greek Tragedy Speak to Women” for ICL, 2005.

85. Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Kate Booth, 2003-.

86. Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Cipriana Petre, 2005-.

87. Chair of Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Karen O’Brien, 2006-.

88. E-seminar discussant of ‘The experience of the rehearsal room in academia’ by Jane Montgomery Griffiths, run by Open University, March, 2006 (C.A.Gillespie@open.ac.uk).

89. Chair of Dissertation/Doctoral committee for Rebecca Johannsen.

90. Offering lectures to invited student Groups, and community groups, who saw my translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (July, 2006) at 6th at Penn Theatre

91. Program notes for Bertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone Wrigley Theatre, Chicago, Illinois (10-13 October, 2006).

92. Mentoring students in an outreach program called Next Step at UCSD (2006).

93. Consulting on production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale at Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, UCSD, (November, 2006).

94. On doctoral committee for Taehyung Kim, 2006-.

95. Offering lectures to invited student Groups, and community groups (studying Greek Classics) who saw my translation of Euripides' Bacchae (Nov. –Dec. 2006) at 6th at Penn Theatre.

96. Offering lectures to invited student Groups, and community groups (studying Greek Classics) who saw my translation of Euripides’ Bacchae (Nov. –Dec. 2006) at 6th at Penn Theatre.

97. Talking over Class in dramaturgy for Jim Carmody who was recovering from surgery on Monday, March 5, 2007

98. Pre-talk for Oresteia to about 50 people, April 14, 2007

99. Various talks following performance of my translation with J. Michael Walton of Aeschylus’ Oresteia (April 5-May 13, 2007). 6th at Penn Theatre.

100. Talks after various performances of the Oresteia, April-May, 2007

101. Talks on Aristophanes’Frogs for a literary club group, San Diego State, April, 2007

102. Selected from our faculty to review national programs in theatre: NRC Assessment: NRCAssessment@mathematica-mpr.com

103. Talkbacks after my play, The Last Class (6th at Penn, Hillcrest), May-June 2007. The play that I wrote and directed is part of the Resilience of the Spirit: Human Rights Festival, 2007

104. Co-Chair of 24th Annual Living Legacy Award Ceremony, Women1s International Center (May 26, 2007).

105. Reading of my plays and translations at the Hillcrest Book and Literacy Fair on June 10th, as part of the Resilience of the Spirit: Human Rights Festival, 2007.

106. Talks about the play and my translation of Euripides’ Medea at 6th at Penn, Oct. 11-Nov. 11, 2007.

107. Talks about the play and my translation with J. Michael Walton of Aristophanes’ Frogs, The Theatre, at The Ark, Nov. 1-18 2007.

 108. Consulted with North Coast Repertory Theatre on their production of Roshomon, giving background, July August, 2007.

109. Conference on Asian Theatre, UCI, Jan. 26-27, 2008.

110. Co-Chair of 25th Annual Living Legacy Award Ceremony, Women’s International Center (March 8, 2008).

111. Talks to Hellenic Society on Euripides’ Helen, and Euripides’ plays, March 21, 2008.

112. Contribution to an e-seminar on “Sappho on Stage” by Jane Montgomery Griffiths, March 2008, contact C.A. Gillespie (C.A.Gillespie@open.ac.uk).

113. Talk to open new International Institute: Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway, University of London. My talk: “Black Antigone and Gay Oedipus: Postcolonial Legacies,” May 28th, 2008.

114. Giving advice to a High School Student in Vanguard High School in Ocala Florida about how to stage Greek tragedy.

115. Vetting work for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, New Hibernian Review and Didaskalia (2006-)

116. Panel at UCSD to welcome incoming students, talk and Q & A, Sept. 18th, 2008, Solis Hall.

117. Talk about Bacchae at UCI for performance in Feb. 2009.

118. Panel on Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex for La Jolla Symphony and Chorus in their Informance series, March 4, 2009 (Mandeville Hall, UCSD).

119. Vetting work for grants in Ireland: IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) postdocs, March, 2009.