Price Lab Podcast

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

June 08, 2021 Price Season 3 Episode 3
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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Price Lab Podcast
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Jun 08, 2021 Season 3 Episode 3
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In this episode, Price Lab's Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Whitney Trettien (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania), interviews  Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Digital Humanities; Professor of English, Michigan State University).

Fitzpatrick and Trettien discuss the opportunities of digital publishing, as well as the importance of higher education, and the status of optimism in decidedly pessimistic times.

Fitzpatrick is the author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in February 2019. She is also the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was published by NYU Press in November 2011.

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In this episode, Price Lab's Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Whitney Trettien (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania), interviews  Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Digital Humanities; Professor of English, Michigan State University).

Fitzpatrick and Trettien discuss the opportunities of digital publishing, as well as the importance of higher education, and the status of optimism in decidedly pessimistic times.

Fitzpatrick is the author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in February 2019. She is also the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was published by NYU Press in November 2011.