Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Lauren Klein

Location: Kirby Hall Salon

• This lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.

Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research brings together computational and critical methods to explore questions of gender, race, and justice, both in early America and today. Klein is the author (with Catherine D’Ignazio) of the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), and the editor (with Matthew K. Gold) of Debates in the Digital Humanities (Univ. of Minnesota Press), among other books and papers. Her next book, Data by Design: From the History of Visualization to the Future We Need, is forthcoming from the MIT Press in Fall 2026.