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Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Faculty Fellow

Visiting Scholar, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Stehinardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New Narratives in Digital Technologies

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Professor of Media Studies (on leave) at Pomona College, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.  She is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press, and of Planned Obsolescence:  Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online.  She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons and is the Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association.