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This week on Reclaim TV: Kathleen Fitzpatrick "On Writing"

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06 May 2025 — 1 min read

The Bloggers Anonymous "On Writing" series continues with Kathleen Fitzpatrick discussing a career of writing in the liminal academic space of an emergent Digital Humanities and what in means for an academic to not only blog, but to publish in accessible spaces that reflect an ethos of open scholarship engaged in a broader public discourse.

Event Name: Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV
Date: May 9th, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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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