Stanley Fish
Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, academic, and public intellectual. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 12 books. Fish has also taught at the Cardozo School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Pennsylvania, Yale Law, Columbia University, The John Marshall Law School, and Duke University.
Read more about Stanley Fish: Academic Career, Milton, Interpretive Communities, Fish and University Politics, Fish As University Politician, Criticisms of His Work, Awards
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