Roel Smeets – Character Networks in Contemporary Dutch Literature

Roel Smeets | Character Networks in Contemporary Dutch Literature | Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies | Supervisors: prof. dr Maarten de Pourcq, prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch | September 2016 – September 2020

In the last decade or so, the rise of Digital Humanities has made it possible to implement data-driven computational and quantitative methods in humanities research. Recently, a broadening range of research has been carried out on the computational analysis of social networks in (literary) texts. In order to reveal relational patterns between characters in recent Dutch literary fiction, my PhD research integrates computational distant reading methods into the practice of critical close reading.