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Fireside Chat: An Archive of Taste (Dr. Lauren Klein)

Dr. Lauren F. Klein is an Associate Professor of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. Klein is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, 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 was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Library Company in Spring 2014.

This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, May 14, 2020.

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