Associate Professor of English and Media Studies
Coordinator, Media Studies Program
B.A., M.F.A, Louisiana State University; Ph.D., New York University

Homepage: http://machines.pomona.edu

Office: Crookshank Hall 202
Phone: 909.607.1496
Email: kathleen dot fitzpatrick at pomona dot edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:15-4.00.

Current Courses:

• English 67: Literary Interpretation
• Media Studies 149: Theories of New Media

Selected Publications:

• The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006)
• Co-editor, Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature. (Pearson, 2005)
• "Performing Don DeLillo: Theatricality, Subjectivity, and the Borders of Genre," in Profils americains 16, Special issue: Don DeLillo (2005)
• "The Exhaustion of Literature: Novels, Computers, and the Threat of Obsolescence," Contemporary Literature 43.3, Fall 2002)
• "The Unmaking of History: Baseball, Cold War, Underworld," in UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld (J. Dewey and S. Kellman, eds., University of Delaware Press/Associated University Presses, 2002)
• "The Clockwork Eye: Technology, Woman, and the Decay of the Modern in Thomas Pynchon's V," in Pynchon's Embodiments: Tales Beyond the Rainbow's End (N. Abbas, ed., Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses, 2002)

Awards and Honors:

• Graves Award in the Humanities, 2002
• Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001