Author: Paul Verhaar

Peter Verhaar is a lecturer at the MA programme Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University. He has taught several courses about text encoding, database theory, the digital humanities and media theory, among many other topics. In the fall of 2016, he defended his Ph D dissertation, Affordances and Limitations of Algorithmic Criticism, which focuses on applications of Text and Data Mining within the field of literary criticism. This dissertation was awarded the 2016 Victorine van Schaik Prize, for the best publication in the field of Library and Information Science.