Lauren S. Cardon

Lauren S. Cardon is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, with a PhD from Tulane University. She has authored three academic monographs on American literature, most recently Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature with UVA Press. She also specializes in DEI pedagogy and recently co-authored Inclusive College Classrooms: Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners, published by Routledge. In addition, she has published pedagogical articles in Change: The Magazine for Higher Learning and the collection Quick Hits: Teaching with Digital Humanities (University of Indiana Press).

Dr. Cardon has taught at the college level for over 18 years, received multiple grants for digital humanities initiatives, and been awarded two prestigious teaching fellowships: a Learning in Action Fellowship and a three-year Distinguished Teaching Fellowship with Technology at the University of Alabama. She has also been a keynote speaker on DEI and digital humanities pedagogy and has led inclusive pedagogy workshops at multiple academic institutions.