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Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California.   More...

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The Anxiety of Obsolescence was published in May 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press, and is available from the press, as well as from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The Anxiety of Obsolescence was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" in January 2008 by CHOICE, the publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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