Bent Hall Rm. 101C, Queens Campus
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick,
Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language
Association
In her 2011 book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing,
Technology, and the Future of the Academy, Kathleen
Fitzpatrick argues that the transformations that digital publishing
will require are less technological than they are social and
institutional; scholars will need to understand the work that they
are doing differently in networked environments, and their
universities will need to think about it differently as well.
Among the changes that becoming fully digital will require is
a reconception of authorship, its purposes, and its grounding in
the scholarly environment. This talk will explore several of the
ways in which authorship is changing in the digital age, with an
eye toward the new kinds of projects that such a reconception of
our work as authors might inspire.
About Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication at
the Modern Language Association, and is on leave from a position as
Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont,
California. She is the author of
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the
Academy, which was published by NYU
Press in November 2011;
Planned Obsolescence was released in draft form for open peer
review in fall 2009. She is also the author of The Anxiety of
Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television,
published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press (and of course
available
in print), and she is co-founder of the digital scholarly
network MediaCommons.
She has published articles and notes in journals including the
Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature,
and Cinema Journal.
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Date: Monday, September 24th,
2012
Time: 1:50 PM
Location: Bent Hall Rm. 101C, Queens
Campus
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