About
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University, where she also holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of English. She is founder of
Mesh Research, a lab focused on the future of scholarly communication, for which she served as director between 2020 and 2024. She is project director of Knowledge Commons, an open-access, open-source network serving more than 50,000 scholars and practitioners across the disciplines and around the world. She is author of four books, the most recent of which,
Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press in fall 2024. She is 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.
You can also find me on
hcommons.social.
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Yesterday, seven programs offered through the International and Foreign Language Education Office of the Department of Education, which administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays funding, were "non-continued" across the board, including: • National Resource Centers • Foreign Language and Area Studies Program • Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs • International Research and Studies • Centers for International Business Education • Language Resource Centers • American Overseas Research Centers The rationale is familiar; these programs are "not in the best interest of the Federal Government." This determination is astonishingly short-sighted and will have deep ramifications for the US's already difficult engagements with the rest of the world. (2025-09-11 ↗)
Over the last several months, I've been engaged in a project designed to bring a bunch of the stuff I'm hosting in various places around… (New post from kfitz.info: "Learning" https://kfitz.info/learning/) (2025-09-07 ↗)
A quick (and likely very dumb) question for folks who’ve worked with Nginx Proxy Manager: I’ve got it running in a Proxmox container, and am now setting up a VM to host several static websites. If I set a proxy host that points to some specific port on the VM, do I need to do something on the VM itself to map that port to the directory where the site lives? Or do I handle all of that in NPM? I tried including this under Advanced, without luck. location / { root /www/site1.net/; } I cannot tell whether its failure to work means that I need to add something to that configuration or that I need to do something on the VM to let it know what to do. (And if there is an introduction to Nginx Proxy Manager that will explain all of this to me, please do point me there. I haven’t been able to find documentation that doesn’t assume I already know what I’m doing.) #homelab #nginx #proxmox (2025-09-02 ↗)
New post from kfitz.info: "Success, at Last" https://kfitz.info/success-at-last/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.) (2025-08-31 ↗)
“While it is true that colleges and universities exist to teach students and advance knowledge, they only fulfill these purposes through the ingenuity and labor of people. And so, if institutions want to fulfill their core purposes, they also have to attend to their responsibilities as *employers.*” —Kevin McClure, The Caring University (153). (2025-08-25 ↗)
Publications
Books
Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. NYU Press, 2011.
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television. Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Selected Articles
“Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal University.” In special section on Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies.
Amerikastudien/American Studies 68.1 (March 2023): 21-23.
“Not All Networks: Toward Open, Sustainable Research Communities.” Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access, eds. Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray. MIT Press, 2020.
“Sustainability, Solidarity, and Community in Higher Education.” EDUCAUSE Review, 26 August 2019.
“Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital.”
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers. Routledge, 2018. 329–35.
“Universities should be working for the greater good.” Times Higher Education, 11 April 2019.
“The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the Age of Google.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 29 March 2016.
“Peer Review.”
A New Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Wiley Blackwell, 2016. 439–48.
“Opening Up Open Access.” LSE Impact Blog, 21 October 2015.
“The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention.”
Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age, ed. Babette B. Tischleder and Sarah Wasserman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 111–26.
“Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age.”
Between Humanities and the Digital, ed. Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg, MIT Press, 2015. 457–66.
Projects
Knowledge Commons, Project director. 2016-present.
MediaCommons, Co-founder and publisher, scholarly network in media studies. 2007–2022.
