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Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication ACLC

M. (Martje) Wijers PhD

Assistant professor
Faculty of Humanities
German and Scandinavian Languages & Cultures
Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 6.10
Postal address
  • Postbus 1641
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Martje Wijers is Assistant Professor in Scandinavian studies at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Swedish linguistics from Ghent University and her current research focuses on computational literary studies and stylometry, combining linguistics, literary studies and translation studies. She is also a certified teacher of Dutch as a second language. 

    Martje teaches Swedish literature, Teaching pedagogy for Dutch as a second language (MA), Variation and change in Scandinavian languages (MA), De Wereld van de Mens, Creative Writing, introduction to Scandinavian linguistics, Translation Swedish-Dutch, How literature shapes society (MA)  and The world in parts  (introduction to humanities) and she co-teaches Computational Literary studies together with Karina van Dalen-Oskam. She also supervises BA and MA students during their theses. 

  • Publications

    2023

    2024

    • Wijers, M. (2024). Het wonderlijke lot van een nietig Nederlands woordje op reis. In A. Peeters, & P. Sleeman (Eds.), De wereld in taal: Een reis in 40 verhalen (pp. 15-20). Uitgeverij Lias.

    2022

    • Wijers, M. (2022). Het geheim van de Zweedse kok: of hoe talen klinken voor onbekende oren. In A. Peeters, & P. Sleeman (Eds.), Taalmysteries: Raadselachtige feiten van grote en kleine talen (pp. 36-42). Uitgeverij Lias.
    • Wijers, M. (2022). Het mysterie van de runensteen van Rök. In A. Peeters, & P. Sleeman (Eds.), Taalmysteries: Raadselachtige feiten van grote en kleine talen (pp. 15-21). Article 1 Uitgeverij Lias.

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Wijers, M. (speaker) (13-12-2024). Reads like a breeze: Analyzing Dutch literary texts through the lens of linguistic metrics.

    Others

    • Wijers, M. (participant) (30-8-2024). computational linguistics in the netherlands, Leiden. The 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 34), organized by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), in (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wijers, M. (participant) (10-7-2023 - 14-7-2023). Digital Humanities 2023, Graz (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wijers, M. (participant) (22-6-2023 - 23-6-2023). Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Würzburg (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2023

    • Wijers, M. (12-12-2023). Why the Daisy sisters are different a stylometric study on the oeuvre of Swedish author Henning Mankell and the Dutch translations of his work. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10362679
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