Roel Smeets
Assistant Professor Of Modern Literature And Digital Culture
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoel Smeets is an Assistant Professor of Modern Literature and Digital Culture at Radboud University, combining close reading with computational methods to study how social structures are reflected and transformed in Dutch narrative fiction. With nine years of research and teaching experience, he develops algorithms and cultural analytics techniques to map character constellations and the representation of social groups in large literary corpora. His work bridges literary hermeneutics, digital humanities, and data-driven cultural critique, and he teaches courses on literature, technology, and datafication. Roel’s background in philosophy and Dutch language & culture, plus a cum laude RMA and a PhD-in-progress turned faculty role, gives him both theoretical depth and practical methodological expertise. He has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects and internships at centers like CLiPS and Huygens ING, contributing computational tools to literary scholarship. Beyond academia, he brings an editor’s attention to narrative nuance, applying quantitative insight to questions often treated only qualitatively.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Dutch literature and Digital Humanities, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Dutch literature and Digital Humanities at Radboud UniversityNederlandse letterkunde (RMA), GPA: 4.0 / Average grade: 8.5 / Cum laude, Nederlandse letterkunde (RMA), GPA: 4.0 / Average grade: 8.5 / Cum laude at Universiteit Utrecht
English, French, latijn, Dutch
Github Skills (19)
twitter6
french4
python4
textual3
mojo3
turkish3
compilation3
crowd3
machine-learning2
software-distribution2
virtual-machine2
docker2
docker-machine2
rapid2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
roelsmeets/character-networks
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Making social networks from fictional characters in literature
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 11 months
social-networkpythonfictionalliteraturefictional-characters
roelsmeets/actual-fictions
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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