Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association, speaks on “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy” in Knight Library’s Browsing Room.
Fiztpatrick, a professor of media studies at Pomona College, is the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television. She is cofounder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons and has published articles and notes in several journals, including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.