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Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. 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 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Duke University.
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
1989
2001
And How to Read One
2011
2002
1980
Literary Studies and Political Change
1995
2008
The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature
1973
1998
The Reader in Paradise Lost
1971
How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
2019
1999
And It's a Good Thing, Too
1993
Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
2015
What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
2016
