• External PhD Examiner University of Auckland (2019)
• External PhD Examiner Queensland University of Technology (2017)
• External PhD Examiner University of Technology Sydney (2017)

• Guest Co-Editor (special issue) Discourse, Context & Media (2019)
• Consulting Editor Educational Psychology (2018 - 2020)
• Co-Editor The Language Teacher (2009-2011)
• Associate Editor The Asian ESP Journal (2008-2009)
• Associate Editor The Asian EFL Journal (2008-2009)
• Associate Editor JALT Conference Proceedings (2008-2009)
• Column Editor The Language Teacher (2007-2009)

• Reviewer Language & Communication (2020 - )
• Reviewer Palgrave Communications (2020 - )
• Reviewer Big Data & Society (2020 - )
• Reviewer Social Media and Society (2019 - )
• Reviewer Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (2019 - )
• Reviewer New Media and Society (2019 - )
• Reviewer Political Behavior (2019 - )
• Reviewer Communication and Sport (2019 - )
• Reviewer Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (2019)
• Reviewer TESOL Journal (2019 - )
• Reviewer Palgrave Macmillan, Language and Linguistics Series (2018)
• Reviewer Applied Linguistics Review (2018 - )
• Reviewer Routledge Education, Behavioural Sciences and Linguistics Series (2018)
• Reviewer TESOL Quarterly (2017 - )
• Reviewer British Journal of Educational Studies (2017 - )
• Reviewer Critical Studies in Education (2017 - )
• Reviewer Globalisation, Societies and Education (2017 - )
• Reviewer TESL Canada Journal (2017 - )
• Reviewer Teaching and Teacher Education (2017 - )
• Reviewer Journal of Language, Culture and Curriculum (2016 - )
• Reviewer European Assoc. for Research on Learning and Instruction (2016)
• Reviewer Journal of Language, Identity and Education (2016 - )
• Reviewer Howard Journal of Communications (2015 - )
• Reviewer Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (2015 - )
• Reviewer Springer, Education & Language Series (2015 - )
• Reviewer Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching (2014)
• Reviewer Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2014 - )
• Reviewer International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (2014 - )
• Reviewer Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (2013 - )
• Reviewer International Journal of Education for Diversities (2012-2015)
• Reviewer System (2012 - )
• Reviewer Language and Intercultural Communication (2010 - )
• Reviewer Language Awareness (2010 - )
• Reviewer Applied Linguistics (2010 - )
• Reviewer Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (2009-2011)

Rivers, D.J. (2014). Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese by Paula Harrell [University of Hawai'i Press, 2012]. Asian Studies Review, 38(4): 701-703. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10357823.2014.963917?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=casr20)

Rivers, D.J. (2014). Scientific Discourse and the Rhetoric of Globalization: The Impact of Culture and Language by Carmen Perez-Llantada [Bloomsbury, 2013]. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-5049.html)

Rivers, D.J. (2013). Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper [John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013]. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-2740.html)

Rivers, D.J. (2013). English-Medium Instruction at Universities: Global Challenges (Multilingual Matters Series) edited by Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra [Multilingual Matters, 2013]. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-832.html)

Rivers, D.J. (2013). Developing Criticality in Practice Through Foreign Language Education (Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning Series) by Stephanie Houghton and Etsuko Yamada [Peter Lang, 2012]. Language and Intercultural Communication, 13(1): 113-116. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14708477.2012.761328)

Rivers, D.J. (2012). The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-Existence (Worlds of English Series) edited by Ann Hewings and Caroline Tagg [Routledge, 2012]. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-4486.html)

Rivers, D.J. (2012). Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts: Language Learning in the New Millennium (Language and Social Processes Series) edited by Christina Higgins [De Gruyter Mouton, 2011]. (https://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-3196.html)

Rivers, D.J. (2011). Reimagining Japanese Education: Borders, Transfers, Circulations, and the Comparative (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Series) edited by David Blake Willis and Jeremy Rappleye [Symposium Books, 2011]. Australian Universities Review, 53(2): 118-122. (https://issuu.com/nteu/docs/aur_53-02)