todorov was appointed to his post as a director of research at the french centre nationale de la recherche scientifique in 1968. in 1970, he helped to found the journal "poétique", of which he remained one of the managing editors until 1979. with structuralist literary critic gérard genette, he edited the "collection poétique", the series of books on literary theory published by éditions de seuil, until 1987. he was a visiting professor at several universities in the us, including harvard, yale, columbia and the university of california, berkeley.