Fix graduated from Boston College in 1974, and completed a master's degree followed by a doctorate, both at Cornell University.
He was the Robert G Scott '68 Professor of English at Williams College.
[1] Areas of Expertise Eighteenth-century British literature, particularly the works of Fielding, Sterne, and Johnson.
Twentieth-century American fiction, particularly the works of Nabokov and Pynchon.
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