The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, January 31st, 2001
In the academic world Stanley Fish is known as the Babe Ruth of literary studies. Now apparently the highest-paid university dean in the country, his fame began years ago when he brought to Johns Hopkins the best scholars in the then new field of cultural studies. Later, as chair of the English department at Duke from 1986 to 1992, Stanley Fish was credited with elevating the Duke department from a good regional operation to one of the nation's intellectual powerhouses. He recruited a number of noted scholars to Duke (including African-American academic superstar Henry Louis Gates Jr.), change...
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