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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 Our Spring-Summer Research Team

With thanks to our publisher, Cambridge University Press, we announce that access to the Orlando textbase is free through the month of May, 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.

We’re taking a moment to round up and celebrate our team’s publications informed by and about Orlando: Susan Brown’s article on the challenges of classifying gender in digital scholarship, “Categorically Provisional,” in the January 2020 PMLA special issue on “Varieties of Digital Humanities”; the December 2019 article by Corrinne Harol and her co-authors Brynn Lewis … Read more Orlandians in the World: New and Forthcoming Publications

We hope new users and those familiar with our textbase, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, will enjoy its free access during March, marking Women’s History Month. To learn more about Orlando, check out our post on the Cambridge Core blog, hosted by our publisher, Cambridge University Press. To … Read more Orlando and Women’s History Month, 2020

Our Literary Director, Katherine Binhammer, is participating in “Working the Intersections of Gender,” the inaugural conference of Intersections of Gender, a cross-disciplinary hub comprising one of the University of Alberta’s signature areas of research. In “Computing Sexual Difference in Digital Literary History: The Orlando Project and Intersectionality,” Binhammer will discuss “how Orlando approached the question … Read more Orlando’s Research at the Intersections of Gender

The Orlando Project is thrilled to welcome our new members for 2019-2020. Orlando’s first post-doctoral fellow, Katherine Binhammer, joins us as Literary Director this year. Based at the University of Alberta, Professor Binhammer works on the history of the novel, eighteenth-century British cultural studies, and feminist literary history. She is the author of Downward Mobility: … Read more Welcoming Orlando’s New Team Members

We are pleased to share that, once again, full access to Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is free during March in celebration of Women’s History Month. Since Women’s History Month 2018, Orlando has been featured in pieces published in Modernism/modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies, and Inside Higher Ed … Read more Orlando and Women’s History Month, 2019

We are thrilled for Susan Brown, Orlando’s Technical Director and one of our founding leaders, whose LINCS (Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship) has just won a major grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The project “will convert large datasets into an organized, interconnected, machine-processable set of resources for Canadian cultural research. LINCS will … Read more Susan Brown and collaborators win Cyberinfrastructure Funding from Canada Foundation for Innovation