Lauren KleinWinship Distinguished Research Professor of English and Quantitative Methods

Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University, where she directs the Emory Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and coauthor (with Catherine D’Ignazio) of the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020). With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. 

 

Klein's work has appeared in leading humanities journals including PMLA, American Literature, and American Quarterly; and at technical conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and IEEE VIS. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the ACLS, the NEH, and the Mellon Foundation. Her next major project, Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science, co-authored with members of her Digital Humanities Lab, is forthcoming from the MIT Press (2026) and viewable online at: dataxdesign.io.