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Thanks to our publishers, Cambridge University Press, the Orlando textbase is free again 1-31 March, to mark Women’s History Month. To use Orlando, click the “Log in” button in the top-right corner of the homepage and enter the following information: Email: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.ca Password: free-Orlando Orlando currently contains 1,413 author profiles as well as 13,794 free-standing and … Read more

This year, Orlando‘s free access begins on International Women’s Day and marks the first days of its new interface, developed by its team of researchers, technical personnel, and students. To begin, log in to the textbase with this information: User: OrlandoOpenEmail: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.caPassword: free-Orlando For our discussion of this new edition of Orlando, read its Preface. To … Read more

Orlando is hiring: we seek an incoming PhD student in English at the University of Alberta, to join us as an intern under the supervision of our Literary Director, Katherine Binhammer. The intern will contribute to the project’s ongoing and upcoming research and outreach initiatives, with opportunities to develop transferable skills in areas that align … Read more

A recent graduate of the Computing Science undergraduate program at the University of Alberta, project member Brynn Lewis discusses her contributions to Orlando’s site redesign: You’ve heard it here; you’ve heard it there; you’ve (hopefully) heard it everywhere: the Orlando Project is undergoing a site redesign. Our ambitious site transformation will deliver a sleek new … Read more

Our revisions to the Orlando interface continue apace, and we’re at work on an exciting new task: the collection of images for author entries, some shared with permission and others in the public domain. These include author portraits along with images of their texts and places associated with their lives and bodies of work. We … Read more

This summer, our Undergraduate Research Assistants are blogging about their experience with the project. First up, Hannah Stewart from the University of Guelph: From the moment I found out that I was going to be an undergraduate research assistant working with the Orlando Project this summer, I was ecstatic. I’m an English major, an aspiring … Read more

Our team is ever-changing, even in this strange time. We have wrapped up work with our 2019-20 GRAs, who contributed to Orlando as they completed their MAs in English at Alberta. Rachel Narvey and Megan Gannett (a CWRC RA) have been terrific members of our team, checking new author entries in CWRC-Writer, and playing important … Read more

With thanks to our publisher, Cambridge University Press, we announce that access to the Orlando textbase is free through the month of July, as people around the world continue to shelter in place. Explore Orlando at home with this credential: User2020 and Access2020

In a post for The Quad, Katherine Binhammer, our Literary Director, reflects on why we turn to literature in times of crisis.