Over the next two decades, he continued to write while holding various teaching positions. In 1965–66, he was visiting professor at Syracuse University in New York. "A Dance in the Sun", his second novel, was produced as the play "Day of the Lion" in Cleveland in 1968. He was a Visiting Fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo in the summer of 1971. In 1974, he became vice chair of the Literature Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain. In 1981, he was a Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University. He also took a position at the University of London as a lecturer; from 1979 to 1987 he was a reader in English. In 1988, he became a professor of English, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1994.