Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
Kathryn Holland NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Dorothea Celesia, 1738 – 1790: An author who spent most of her life in Genoa but whose well-received writing (a poem in praise of indolence and a play staged in Drury Lane that adapted Voltaire) was published in Britain, where she had been born. Anne Francis, 1738 – 1800: A poet and … 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
We are delighted to announce that Corrinne Harol has undertaken the position of Literary Director of the Orlando Project. Dr. Harol (PhD UCLA), Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. Areas of research interest include the intersections of literary, scientific, political, … Read more
The Orlando Project began in 1995. In May 2015, the conference Digital Diversity 2015: Writing | Feminism | Culture took place in Edmonton to mark the Orlando Project’s 20th birthday and to explore ongoing advances in the fields of digital literary and cultural studies. We welcomed an international, multidisciplinary group of delegates, who participated in … Read more