Editing Dell Hymes (section)

==Career==
From 1955, Hymes taught at [[Harvard University]] for five years, leaving in 1960 to join the faculty of the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he spent another five years before joining the Department of Anthropology at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1965 (where he succeeded [[A. Irving Hallowell]]). In 1972 he joined the Department of Folklore and Folklife and in 1975 he became Dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education]].

He served as president of the [[American Folklore Society]] in 1973, the [[Linguistic Society of America]] in 1982, and the [[American Anthropological Association]] in 1983—the last person to have held all three positions.

While at Penn, Hymes was a founder of the [[academic journal|journal]] ''[[Language in Society]]''.

Hymes later joined the Departments of Anthropology and English at the [[University of Virginia]], where he became the Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology and English, and from which he retired in 2000, continuing as emeritus professor until his death from complications of [[Alzheimer's disease]] on November 13, 2009.<ref>Sally A. Downey, [http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20091119_Dell_Hathaway_Hymes__82__Penn_education_dean.html Dell Hathaway Hymes, 82, Penn education dean] philly.com. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.</ref>

<!--==Sexual harassment allegations==
Hymes was accused of sexual harassment in the later years of his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Donnell |first=Patrick |date=December 1, 1988 |title=Administration tried to downplay allegations of sexism |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |url=https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/imageserver.pl?oid=tdp19881201-01&getpdf=true |access-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-date=March 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315051213/https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/imageserver.pl?oid=tdp19881201-01&getpdf=true |url-status=dead}}</ref> According to [[The Daily Pennsylvanian]], this 
included:
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|text=...his female graduate advisees being nicknamed 'Hymes' Harem,' female GSE faculty testifying against Hymes for sexual harassment, and Penn faculty in other schools severing their formal ties with GSE after multiple women filed sexual discrimination lawsuits for being denied tenure.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Elegant |first=Naomi |date=April 11, 2018 |title=Penn removes portrait of former GSE dean with alleged history of sexual harassment |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/04/gse-getup-sexual-harassment-dell-hymes-portrait-removal-upenn-penn-philadelphia |access-date=November 17, 2022}}</ref>}}-->