Academic Career
Cairns has served on the faculties of Kansas State University, Westminster College, University of North Texas, Old Dominion University. He currently is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in English at the University of Missouri. While at North Texas, Cairns had served as editor of the American Literary Review.
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