 She was a visiting professor and a visiting creative writer at several universities including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Chicago (USA), Humboldt (Germany), Universities of Toronto, British Columbia (Canada), Melbourne, New South Wales (Australia), and El Collegio de Mexico.She held the Maytag Chair of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Colorado College, 1988–1989.She represented herself and India in many international conferences, both academic and literary, and at the Festival of India USA in 1986.