Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV

Tune in to Jim Groom and special guest Kathleen Fitzpatrick talking about her web origin story in our ongoing Bloggers Anonymous series.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is currently Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. She has been at MSU since August 2017, and up until July 2024 served as Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English. During that same time period, she was founding director of Mesh Research, a lab dedicated to developing open-source, interoperable, academy-owned tools for the future of scholarly communication. Key among Mesh’s projects is Knowledge Commons, an open-access network serving more than 40,000 scholars and practitioners across – and beyond – the disciplines and around the world.

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