Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Who is Kathleen Fitzpatrick?

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is an American scholar of digital humanities. She is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, Visiting Research Professor of English at New York University, and is co-editor of MediaCommons.

Fitzpatrick received her B.A. and M.F.A from Louisiana State University and her Ph.D. from New York University, and has taught at Pomona College since 1998.

Fitzpatrick is the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was released for open peer review by MediaCommons Press in 2009.; she is also the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence. Her other publications include two commentable articles on MediaCommons, "MediaCommons: Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet," and "CommentPress: New Structures for New Texts."