To boost its status, the University of Illinois at Chicago hired famed English Professor Stanley Fish from Duke University to become the new dean for their College of Liberal Arts, making him the highest paid person in the UIC system. This semester is the start of his new job. The Chicago Sun Times interviewed Stanley Fish in its February 14, 1999 issue. Dean Fish is a bright, provocative, and articulate person but often wrong. In particular we take issue with his view on what historic preservation is about. Here is a quote form that interview.
Efforts at preservation are always understandable and attractive and have to be understood as efforts to retard time, Fish said. As someone who is 60, I understand the impulse to retard time.
Responses to the Fish interview
Another Fishism by T. Gale
Why Preserve? by Mike Highfield
Fish Fashion by Eric Zestburg
Postmodern Theory and Maxwell Street by Dom Benson
A Reply to Stanley Fish about UIC and Maxwell St. Preservation by Steve Balkin. The Coalition would like to thank the UIC independent student newspaper, The Flame, for reproducing this editorial in their Feb. 22, 1999 issue.
Related Links
A Postmodern View of Maxwell St.. by Priscilla Perkins, Assistant Professor of English, Roosevelt University
So, will the Fish be worth the bait? by the editor of the UIC Flame(2/23/99)
Stanley Fish Resources Center - by Kyösti Niemelä at the University of Helsinki
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return to Preserve Maxwell Street