Bio
Hazel Wilkinson is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Birmingham, where she is also a Birmingham Fellow. She came to Birmingham in 2017, from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where she was a Junior Research Fellow. Hazel’s research concerns eighteenth-century literature and culture, in particular the history of printing and typography in this period, and she has a special interest in how data science and AI can solve humanities problems. She is the founder of Compositor, a database of over a million images of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments, which uses computer vision and machine learning. She was the winner of the 2016 Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities, and has published in Digital Humanities Quarterly. From 2020–22 she is an AHRC Leadership Fellow, working on the project ‘Recovering the Grammar of Ornament’. She has previously held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Huntington Library, the Library of Congress, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.