UNIVERSITY NEWS - JANUARY 2004

MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971, ssmith@fau.edu
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Scholar Stanley Fish to Lecture at FAU

BOCA RATON, FL (January 26, 2004) - The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University will present two lectures by Stanley Fish. On Wednesday, January 28 from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Fish will present "Why Milton Matters: The Case Against Historicism" and on Thursday, January 29 from 6:30 to 8 p.m., his lecture will be "One More Time: Tolerance, Free Speech, Difference, Mutual Respect, Contingency, Truth, and Interpretive Communities Revisited." A reception will follow Thursday's lecture. Both lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in the Performing Arts Building, Room 101 on FAU's Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road.

"Professor Fish is an engaging and provocative public intellectual, and one of the most influential literary critics of our time," said William Covino, dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
Fish is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He 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.

He is the author of several books including There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too; The Trouble with Principle and How Milton Works.

The lectures are sponsored by the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities Endowment. For further information, call 561-297-3830.
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