Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
We look forward to welcoming three of our editorial board members and hearing from our outgoing research assistant later this week, during the Orlando Symposium on Contemporary Women’s Writing. Consider joining us for papers, a roundtable, demonstrations, and more at the University of Alberta on Friday, September 7 and Saturday, September 8:
Congratulations to our summer Graduate Research Assistant Gideon Brobbey, for his participation in a University of Alberta Research Exchange (UARE) showcase on 22 August 2018. He created and presented a poster on the centrepiece of his Orlando activities: a new textbase entry on British-Nigerian writer Helen Oyeyemi, which he is co-authoring with our Literary Director, … Read more
What are the relationships among authors’ locations, their proximity to each other, and the development of their writing careers? How did sociability inform creativity during the Victorian period specifically? Orlando is sponsoring, with VSAWC (the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada) and the University of Calgary, a new DH project, Mapping Victorian Literary Sociability, that … Read more
Thanks to our publisher, Cambridge University Press, Orlando is now available to Wikipedia editors via The Wikipedia Library. We are pleased that access to the textbase is growing and look forward to seeing its materials used in articles throughout the encyclopedia.
We are delighted to announce that two online sources for feminist literary studies, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present and Women Writers Online, will once again be free during March in celebration of Women’s History Month. Orlando is a literary and cultural history generated from original scholarship about the lives … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES This batch of new entries remarkably reflects the international aspect of British women’s writing. We have here authors of English, Irish, Welsh, New Zealand, Nigerian, and totally unknown origins and allegiances; we have careers largely pursued in Italy, Mexico, New Mexico, New York, and all around the world; we have intimate involvement … Read more
As part of our shift to Orlando 2.0, we have invited scholars of women’s writing and digital humanities to join our editorial and advisory boards. We will be working with them on such initiatives as the peer-reviewed process of external contributions to the Orlando textbase and a collection of print volumes drawn from and in … Read more
Congratulations to Orlando’s Susan Brown, recently appointed Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Collaborative Digital Scholarship at the University of Guelph. In other news, Laura Mandell includes Susan Brown on her short list of DH leaders in her interview with Melissa Dinsman on “The Digital in the Humanities” for the Los Angeles Review of Books. … Read more
In early April, Margaret Atwood delivered the 10th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture, sponsored by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de Littérature Canadienne (CLC). Her lecture, “The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Literary Landscape of the 1960s,” will be broadcast by CBC Radio’s Ideas later this year. Here is Atwood at the event with the … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Mary Mollineux, c. 1651 – 1696: A north-country Quaker who directed her poetry to literary as well as religious ends. Alison Cockburn, 1713 – 1794: She has the place in the story of the Scottish ballad revival and wrote other occasional poems, letters, and memoirs. Ann Thicknesse, 1737 – 1824: wife of … Read more