SMU #50592 Professor of English (Duwain Hughes Chair)

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Description Position No. 00050592. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured Full Professor appointment to the D.E. Hughes Distinguished Chair beginning in Fall 2026. The field is open. We welcome applications in any areas of literary study, broadly defined. The holder of this chair, generously funded by the Hughes Family Trust, should have a major research agenda and be committed to active involvement in the department and its well-endowed Ph.D. program. This commitment should include the chairing of dissertations and the mentorship of graduate students. This appointment comes at a pivotal moment, as SMU, a well-endowed private university, has recently achieved R1 status, and the Hughes Chair is central to strengthening our national and international profile. We are a dynamic department with impressive resources and ambitious initiatives. Our Ph.D. students receive an annual stipend of $41,000, as well as generous research travel funds and a stipend to cover their initial moving expenses. The department recently launched transformative initiatives in narrative and poetics. Narrative Now redefines the art and study of st...