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Speakers: Stanley Fish; Dean of Academic Affairs, University of Illinois-Chicago
Response by Yale Professor David Bromwich

STANLEY FISH is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University (1960; 1962). He has previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley (1962-74); Johns Hopkins University (1974-85), where he was the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities; and Duke University, where he was Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law (1986-1998). From 1993 through 1998 he served as Executive Director of Duke University Press. Dean Fish will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 through 2002.

He is the author of John Skelton's Poetry (1965); Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967 and a Thirtieth Anniversary Edition in 1997); Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature (1972); The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing (1978); Is There a Text in This Class? Interpretive Communities and the Sources of Authority (1980); Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies (1989); There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too (1994); Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (1995); The Trouble with Principle (1999); and How Milton Works (2001). The Stanley Fish Reader, edited by H. Aram Veeser, was published in 1999.

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