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Professor Glenn Roe – Enlightenment Influencers: Networks of Text Reuse in 18th-Century France
18th February 2027 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Glenn Roe is Professor of Digital Scholarship and French Literature and a Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. His research explores the intersection of French literature, the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, and the digital humanities, with particular emphasis on large-scale intertextuality, computational literary history, and the history of ideas. Before returning to Oxford, Glenn was Professor of French Literature and Digital Humanities at Sorbonne University, where he directed the Observatory of Texts, Ideas, and Corpora (ObTIC) and was member of the CELLF (UMR 8599) research laboratory. He previously held positions as Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at Oxford (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Oxford e-Research Centre), and Research Fellow at Wolfson College and the Voltaire Foundation.