Elli Bleeker is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture (KNAW), where she specializes in digital scholarly editing. She holds a master’s degree in Book and Digital Media Studies (2010, Leiden University) and was subsequently an Early Career Research Fellow in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie network “DiXiT” (2014-2017). In this position, she learned all about the valuable combination of manuscript studies and computational text analysis.
After obtaining her PhD at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (2017, University of Antwerp), she joined the Huygens Institute.
She is a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letteren, a board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, coordinator of the VIDIT working group, and a member of the TEI Technical Council. She loves to investigate how deletions, additions, and revisions in old manuscripts provide new insights into the genesis and development of literary texts.
Photo: Monique Kooijmans.
