Editing Stanley Fish (section)

==Academic career==
Fish taught English at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]] and [[Johns Hopkins University]] before serving as Arts and Sciences Professor of English and professor of law at [[Duke University]] from 1986 to 1998. From 1999 to 2004, he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and he served as distinguished visiting professor at the [[UIC John Marshall Law School|John Marshall Law School]] from 2000 until 2002.<ref name="Law.fiu.edu"/>  Fish also held joint appointments in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice and was the chairman of the Religious Studies Committee.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lynn|first=Andrea|date=October 6, 2004|title=Experts in the humanities to discuss future of their discipline|url=http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/1006humanities.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907064206/http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/1006humanities.html|archive-date=September 7, 2008|access-date=August 25, 2013|website=News Bureau|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

During his tenure there, he recruited professors respected in the academic community, and attracted attention to the college.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jaschik|first=Scott|date=February 11, 2005|title=Life After Stanley|url=http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/02/11/chicago2_11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505143018/http://insidehighered.com/workplace/2005/02/11/chicago2_11|archive-date=May 5, 2006|website=Inside Higher Ed}}</ref> After resigning as dean in a high-level dispute with the state of Illinois over funding UIC,<ref>{{cite web|date=October 31, 2003|title=Privatizing the Public|url=http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/archives/000328.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031218023346/http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/archives/000328.html|archive-date=December 18, 2003|website=Invisible Adjunct}}</ref> Fish spent a year teaching in the Department of English. The Institute for the Humanities at UIC named a lecture series in his honor, which is still ongoing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/huminst/stanley.shtml|title=The Stanley Fish Lecture|publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago|date=April 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427021301/http://www.uic.edu/depts/huminst/stanley.shtml|archive-date=April 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June 2005, he accepted the position of Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at [[Florida International University]], teaching in the [[FIU College of Law]].

In November 2010 he joined the board of visitors of [[Ralston College]], a start-up institution in Savannah, Georgia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ralston.ac|title=Collegium Ralstonianum apud Savannenses - Home|publisher=Ralston.ac|access-date=August 25, 2013}}</ref> He has also been a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] since 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amacad.org/members/classList.pdf|title=List of Active Members by Class|publisher=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|date=November 12, 2012|access-date=August 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005034430/http://www.amacad.org/members/classList.pdf|archive-date=October 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In April 2024, [[New College of Florida]] described him as presidential scholar in residence in invitations to a discussion with [[Mark Bauerlein]] on free speech, academic freedom, and political expression.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ncf.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHEYVNPEBGiVbbE | title=Socratic Stage Dialogue Series Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Political Expression with Dr. Stanley Fish and Dr. Mark Bauerlein }}</ref>