Professor Glenn Roe appointed Professor of Digital Scholarship

We are delighted to announce that Professor Glenn Roe has been appointed Professor of Digital Scholarship and French Literature, in association with Jesus College

Glenn returns to Oxford from the Sorbonne University, where he was Professor of French Literature and Digital Humanities. There he directed the Observatory of Texts, Ideas, and Corpora (ObTIC) project team and was a member of the CELLF Laboratory (UMR 8599). 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. 

Glenn's 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. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant ModERN (Modelling Enlightenment: Reassembling Networks of Modernity through data-driven research), based at the École normale supérieure (ITEM, UMR 8132 CNRS).

Glenn spent eight years as a Senior Project Manager for the University of Chicago’s ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language), one of the older and better known North American research and development centres for computer-assisted text analysis. Since 2010 he has served as Associate Editor of the online digital edition of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, a flagship digital humanities project developed in collaboration with ARTFL and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. He has published on a variety of scholarly subjects, from French literary and intellectual history, to the design and use of new digital methodologies for literary research, both in traditional venues and collaboratively in various digital humanities journals. More information on Glenn's research projects and publications is at: www.glennroe.net. 

Glenn takes on the directorship of the MSc in Digital Scholarship which welcomes its fourth cohort of students in Michaelmas 2025.