 A Henry Fellow at Harvard (1960–61), he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in 1965.From 1966 to 1985 Caute held various academic positions, including Reader at Brunel University, and Visiting Professor at New York University, Columbia University, University of California, Irvine, and Bristol University.He was Literary Editor of the "New Statesman" 1979–80, and Co-Chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, 1982.