[11] He was a Founding Editor of the New German Critique,[12] and holds positions on the advisory boards for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature,[13] Fairy Tale Review[14] and Storytelling, Self, Society.
[1] His thesis was published as a book, The Great Refusal: Studies of the Romantic Hero in German and American Literature, in 1970 and was influenced by the works of Herbert Marcuse.
[1] Zipes was the Co-founder of the Neighborhood Bridges literacy program, a joint project of the University of Minneapolis and the Children's Theatre Company, in 1997 and directed it until 2008.
[20] In 2018, he established Little Mole and Honey Bear, a publishing house specializing in unique books for children and adults primarily created between 1910 and 1940.
In a review for the Journal of European Studies, Joachim Whaley stated "Gilman and Zipes have produced a marvellous compendium.
In addition, he co-edited Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis,1945-2000 with Leslie Morris, assessing Jewish life in postwar Germany, including community, culture, and the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Austria, offering insights into the evolving relationship between Jews and Germans.
About it, Bjorn Krondofer remarked "The co-editors Morris and Zipes have gathered an impressive list of contributors from different academic disciplines in the United States and Germany...".