FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Professor Stanley Fish, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will offer the lecture "How Hobbes Works" at 4 p.m. on Friday, September 19 in Giffels Auditorium as part of the Hartman Hotz Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Fish, considered one of today’s preeminent critics in law and literary studies, has written noted studies on John Milton, First Amendment issues, critical theory, political theory, and popular culture. From 1993 to 1998 he served as Executive Director of Duke University Press. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. From Yale University and previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University.

He is the author of "John Skelton’s Poetry"; "Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost"; "Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature"; "Doing what Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies"; "Is There a Text in This Class? Interpretive Communities and the Sources of Authority"; "There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too"; "The Trouble with Principle"; and "How Milton Works." The "Stanley Fish Reader" was published in 1999.

The University of Arkansas Hartman Hotz Lectures in Law and Liberal Arts were established by Dr. and Mrs. Palmer Hotz of Foster City, California, to honor the memory of his brother, Hartman Hotz. Hartman Hotz was an honored graduate of the University of Arkansas College of Arts and Sciences in history. He was a distinguished student, committed to academic excellence. After graduating from Yale University Law School, he joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he made significant contributions to the study of law.

Many distinguished speakers have participated in this lecture series, among them Chief Justice Warren Burger, G. Edward White, Shirley Abbott, Daisy Bates, Thomas Grisso, George Fletcher, and George McGovern.