13 Facts About Stanley Fish

Stanley Eugene Fish was born on April 19,1938 and is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual.

Stanley Fish is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Stanley Fish is associated with postmodernism, although he views himself instead as an advocate of anti-foundationalism.

Stanley Fish is viewed as having influenced the rise and development of reader-response theory.

Stanley Fish's father, an immigrant from Poland, was a plumber and contractor who made it a priority for his son to get a university education.

Stanley Fish taught English at the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University before serving as Arts and Sciences Professor of English and professor of law at Duke University from 1986 to 1998.

Stanley Fish held joint appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice and was the chairman of the Religious Studies Committee.

Stanley Fish has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985.

In 1963, the same year that Fish started as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, its resident Miltonist, Constantinos A Patrides, received a grant.

Stanley Fish's book needs to presume that we find Milton's beliefs, and even more the sheer force of those beliefs, inimical.

Stanley Fish has written extensively on the politics of the university, having taken positions supporting campus speech codes and criticizing political statements by universities or faculty bodies on matters outside their professional areas of expertise.

Stanley Fish argued in January 2008 on his New York Times-syndicated blog that the humanities are of no instrumental value, but have only intrinsic worth.

Stanley Fish has been parodied in two novels by David Lodge in which he appears as "Morris Zapp".