Lauren Klein

Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University. She also directs the Digital Humanities Lab there. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Lauren works at the intersection of data, AI, and the humanities, with an emphasis on questions of gender and race. She is the author and editor of several books, including Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), co-authored with Catherine D’Ignazio, which was named a “Must-Read Book for Spring 2020” by WIRED Magazine. Her newest project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, will be published by the MIT Press in 2024.