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| Display Name | Kathleen Fitzpatrick |
| First Name | Kathleen |
| Last Name | Fitzpatrick |
| Affiliation | Michigan State University |
| Biography | Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of English at Michigan State University. Before assuming this role, she was Director of DH at MSU. Her work across her career has focused on building resilient, sustainable scholarly communities and transforming their processes of communication to foreground connection, conversation, and collaboration. Her most recent book, Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in October 2024. Her prior books include Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Hopkins Press, 2019), Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011), and The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Vanderbilt UP, 2006). She is project director of Knowledge Commons, an open-access, open-source network serving more than 50,000 scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world. Between 2011 and 2017, Fitzpatrick was Director of Scholarly Communication and then Associate Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, where she co-authored and oversaw the development of the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Prior to taking on that position, she was Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, where she had been a member of the faculty since 1998. While at Pomona, she co-founded the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing. She currently serves as president of the board of directors of the Educopia Institute, and she served as president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities from 2020 to 2022. |
| ORCID 16 digit identifier | 0000-0002-5251-0307 |