The Wilkes University English Department will conclude the 2026 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with final guest artist Lauren Klein at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Klein will read from her works, followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is free and open to the public.
Klein, a Digital Humanities and Early American Literature Scholar, is a 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 (University of Minnesota Press) and author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). 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.
The series features writers and scholars from across genres and backgrounds as they come to campus to present readings from their works and participate in question-and-answer sessions with the audience.
For more information, visit wilkes.edu/dickson.