Wouter Haverals

Wouter Haverals is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University's Center for Digital Humanities and a Perkins Fellow at the Humanities Council. His work bridges computational methods with literary studies, focusing on medieval Dutch prosody, handwritten text recognition (HTR), and digital scholarly editing. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2020) and has held postdoctoral and visiting scholar positions at institutions like the Meertens Institute (Amsterdam) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków).

Research Interests:

• Computational analysis of medieval poetic meter
• Handwritten text recognition applied to historical manuscripts
• Digital methodologies in Hispanic-Filipino literature
• Stylometric analysis of children's literature

His articles explore topics ranging from HTR datasets for medieval manuscripts to computational analyses of implied readership in Harry Potter. He contributes to projects like DigiPhiLit, advancing digital approaches for under-resourced languages. Current work includes a distant reading analysis of the Princeton Prosody Archive to study canonical authorship and prosodic concepts.

Affiliations:

• Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University
• Humanities Council, Princeton University
• Technical Council, Erasmus+ DigiPhiLit Project