Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, although Fish has no degrees or training in law. 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. Fish is associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation. Instead he views himself as an advocate of anti-foundationalism. He is also viewed as having influenced the rise and development of reader-response theory. During his career he has also taught at the Cardozo School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Pennsylvania, Yale Law School, Columbia University, The John Marshall Law School, and Duke University. Early life Fish was born in Providence, Rh
Stanley Eugene Fish (nacido el 19 de abril de 1938) es un teórico literario estadounidense, estudioso jurídico, autor e intelectual público. Actualmente es el Profesor de Derecho Distinguido de Floersheimer en la Escuela de Derecho Benjamin N. Cardozo de la Universidad de Yeshiva en la ciudad de Nueva York, aunque Fish no tiene grados o formación en derecho. Fish ha servido previamente como el Profesor Distinguido de la Universidad de Humanidades de Davidson-Kahn y profesor de Derecho en la Universidad Internacional de Florida y es Decano Emérito del Colegio de Artes y Ciencias Libres en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Fish está asociado con el postmodernismo, a veces a su irritación. En lugar de eso, se ve a sí mismo como un defensor del anti-fundamentalismo. También se considera que ha influenciado el surgimiento y el desarrollo de la teoría de la respuesta del lector. Durante su carrera también ha enseñado en la Escuela de Derecho de Cardozo, Universidad de California, Rheley, Johns Hopkins, Universidad de Pennsylvania, Yale Law School,