STANLEY FISH TO SPEAK AT WESLEYAN, WED 9-21, 4:15

Professor Stanley Fish, one of the country¹s leading public intellectuals, will be speaking at Wesleyan on Wednesday, September 21, at 4:15 pm in the Chapel on High Street. The public is welcome to attend.

For those of you who do not know him, Fish is an extraordinarily prolific author whose works include more than 200 scholarly publications and books. While his research covers a variety of fields, he has written for many of the country¹s leading law journals, including Stanford Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, and others. Professor Fish is also the author of numerous books including Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies (1989); There¹s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It¹s a Good Thing, Too (1994); Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (1995); The Trouble with Principle (1999); and How Milton Works (2001).

On Wednesday, however, Professor Fish will take on the role of cultural critic and will be speaking on the future or, more precisely, the "worth" of the humanities in today's world. In so doing, he will be building on a series of recent New York Times Op-ed pieces that he published and that incited great debate in numerous circles.