About the Author
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, where she is also a member of the extended faculties in Cultural Studies and Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University. The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television is her first book. She has published notes and articles in journals including Contemporary Literature, Profils américains, Cinema Journal, Film and History, and Literature/Film Quarterly, and has had essays included in edited volumes on Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. She is a co-editor of the database anthology Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature, and she has been an editor or producer on numerous multimedia publishing projects. She is currently working with The Institute for the Future of the Book to found a new, all-electronic scholarly press focused on media studies.
