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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

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

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

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

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

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

The Orlando Lecture, sponsored by the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, provides a biennial platform for the discussion of innovative research in women’s writing, gender, and sexuality and its name recognizes the history of groundbreaking scholarship in those areas by the department’s faculty members. Marie Carrière (Professor of English and Director … Read more

To better represent our unique materials and meet users’ needs, we are overhauling the Orlando textbase interface. As part of this process, we invite all users to send in their stories about what they’d like to see in and do with the Orlando site. What role does Orlando play in your research and teaching, learning, … Read more

This fall WestGrid and Compute Canada hosted their annual Visualize This! competition, featuring Orlando’s first linked dataset in its Humanities category. The results are in and we congratulate all participants, including the first- and third-place winners, Philippe Nazair (Université du Québec à Rimouski and MERIDIAN Consortium) and Catherine Winters (Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser … Read more

Compute Canada’s 2018 Visualize This! competition, hosted by WestGrid, is underway and we are thrilled that Orlando’s first linked dataset is the subject of the humanities visualization challenge. The Orlando British Women’s Writing Dataset Release 1: Biography and Bibliography is drawn from Orlando textbase content, developed by project members at the University of Guelph, and structured … Read more