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Stanley Fish

American literary theorist and lawyer · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1938 · age 88

Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

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Wilbur Cross Medal2011
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay1994
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Fish has previously served as the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University and is dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Born 1938 · age 88