 In the fall of 2006 he was named to the Charles Ranlett Flint Chair in Humanities at Bard College, where he currently teaches one course each semester on literary subjects.His academic residencies have included the Richard Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany (2008); Critic-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome (2010), and Visiting writer at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2014).In March, 2019 he will be in residence at the University of Virginia, where he will give the Page-Barbour Lectures.