Complex sentence: White held the Chair of Twentieth Century Poetics at the Sorbonne from 1983 to 1996, and is the founder-president of the International Institute of Geopoetics, as well as holding honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the Open University.
Split into simpler sentences: White held the Chair of XXth Poetics at the Sorbonne from 1983 to 1996. White holds honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the Open University.