Stanley Fish on Barbara Herrnstein Smith's Style

Stanley Fish discusses Barbara Herrnsteins Smith's academic style through examining her lectures and academic writings. Stanley Fish is a prolific author whose works include over 200 scholarly publications and books. While his research covers a variety of fields, Professor Fish has written for many of the country's leading law journals. including Stanford Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Texas Law Review.

Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law. He most recently served as 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. Dr. Fish served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 through 2002.

This event was presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Program in Literature at Duke University.

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