Stanley Fish in Conversation with Ilan Stavans at Amherst College

Is Truth Doomed in the Age of Trump? And Is Free Speech in Peril?

llan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, joined Stanley Fish, American literary theorist, legal scholar and author, for a discussion about free speech on college campuses.

Stanley Fish is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University and is a world-renowned literary theorist and legal scholar. Professor Fish’s literary theory has been particularly associated with neopragmatism, where practice is advanced over theory, and with the interpretive relationships between literature and law.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is an internationally known, award-winning cultural critic, linguist, translator, public speaker, editor, short-story writer, and TV host, whose New York Times best-selling work focuses on language, identity, politics and history.