The Orlando Project team includes researchers with expertise in women’s writing, literary history, humanities computing, and computing science. It has included, over time, Co-Investigators, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Graduate and Undergraduate Research Assistants, Systems Analysts and Programmers, Librarians, and technical and administrative support personnel.

Susan Brown, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy have overall responsibility for the Orlando Project.

Susan Brown, Project Director, is Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and a founding member of the Orlando Project. She is seconded part-time to the University of Alberta for her work in Orlando. She is responsible for Victorian materials in the textbase, and author of volume two of the Orlando History, 1820 – 1890. Her areas of research interest include Victorian women writers, Victorian poetry and poetics, the relationship of Victorian writing to diverse social fields including feminism, imperialism, and economics, and various issues in humanities computing. She was a contributor to the Feminist Companion to Literature in English and to the Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, and has published essays in the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (ed. J. Bristow), Victorian Women Poets (ed. A. Chapman), Literature and Money (ed. A. Purdy), Gender and Colonialism (ed. S. Ryder et al), and in journals including Feminist Studies, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, and English Studies in Canada. She received a University of Guelph Faculty Association Special Merit Teaching Award in 1999.

Patricia Clements, Project Co-Investigator, is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. She is responsible for twentieth-century materials in the textbase, and co-author, with Jo-Ann Wallace and Rebecca Cameron, of volume three of the Orlando History. She is co-author/editor, with Virginia Blain and Isobel Grundy, of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, 1990, the first reference work to women’s writing in the various literary traditions in English, and co-editor with Isobel Grundy of Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, 1983. She has published on nineteenth-century French and English poetry and prose: Baudelaire and the English Tradition, 1985; The Poems of Thomas Hardy, ed. with Juliet Grindle, 1980. She served two terms as Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta, and a term as President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. She received a BA from the University of Alberta, a DPhil from Oxford University, and an honorary DLitt from Brock University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Isobel Grundy, Project Co-investigator,  is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. She is the author of volume one of the Orlando history, the early period to about 1830. She received her degrees from Oxford University, where she was a member of St Anne’s College. Between her BA and her DPhil she worked for six years in Finland, London, and New York. She taught at Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University, from 1971, then moved to the University of Alberta in 1990 as Henry Marshall Tory Professor. Her areas of research interest are women writers in English from the Medieval period through the long eighteenth century: favourite authors Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Samuel Johnson. She was one of the authors of The Feminist Companion. Her Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Comet of the Enlightenment appeared from Oxford University Press in 1999 (paperback 2001). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In September 2000 she was awarded the University of Alberta’s highest honour, the University Cup, for excellence in research and teaching.

Renée Elio, Project Co-investigator, graduated summa cum laude with a BA (honors) degree in psychology from Smith College in 1977. She did graduate work at both Yale University and Carnegie-Mellon University, receiving her PhD in cognitive psychology from CMU in 1981. Upon graduation she accepted a professional staff position with Bell Labs (Whippany NJ) in the Information and Decision Sciences group. In 1983 she moved to Alberta to take a position as an NSERC Industrial Fellow Chair with the Alberta Research Council. There she designed and implemented an expert system for hail storm prediction and monitoring that was a cornerstone for subsequent collaborative activity between ARC, Alberta Environment, and related industries. She was also instrumental in formulating aspects of ARC’s advanced computing technology program, which enabled the ARC to establish a presence in artificial intelligence applications and joint ventures. In 1985 she joined the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, where she is currently a Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Science. Her research activities include the specification and development of computer models of human learning and skill acquisition, machine learning systems, expert systems, and problem solving systems; conversation protocols for software agents; and theoretical issues in cognitive science and AI [artificial intelligence] broadly defined.

Rebecca Cameron, Project Co-Investigator, first joined Orlando as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1999. In Fall 2002 she became Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, teaching modern British literature and drama, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research interests include modern drama, twentieth-century women’s writing, feminism, dramatic realism, and Ibsen’s impact on turn-of-the-century British culture, with an emphasis on women writers. She has published articles on British women dramatists of the interwar period (Clemence Dane, Gordon Daviot, and Elizabeth Baker). She received her BA (in English and Philosophy) and her PhD from the University of Toronto, and her MA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Between degrees, she spent time working and seeing plays in London and Chicago. While pursuing her doctorate, she helped found and co-ordinate a basic literacy program for adults and adolescents in downtown Toronto.

Jo-Ann Wallace, Project Co-Investigator, is Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Alberta. She is former Chair of the English Department, University of Alberta, and editor of English Studies in Canada. Her research areas include women’s literary modernism, feminist theory, and studies in “the child” and children’s literature. Her current work focuses on Edith Ellis (who wrote and lectured under her married name, Mrs Havelock Ellis) and on the forums available to women progressive intellectuals in early twentieth-century England.

Stan Ruecker, formerly a Research Assistant, now a Project Co-Investigator, is Assistant Professor of Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. His previous degrees are in English, computer science, and visual communication design, where his thesis dealt with the design of the electronic book.

Jeff Antoniuk joined the Orlando Project as Systems Analyst in 2002. He holds an MSc in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and a BSc from Brandon University. As a student at the University of Alberta, Jeff was a member of the Database System Research Group, and his interests include information retrieval and data-mining (knowledge discovery in data). In 2011 Jeffery joined the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory as Senior Programmer.

Mariana Paredes-Olea joined the project in January 2009 as Textbase Manager. She holds an MA in Humanities Computing from the University of Alberta (2009) and an MA in Spanish from the University of Toronto (2006). Mariana’s research interests include the politics of print, and the role of electronic publishing in the history of text. She is also interested in representations of science and technology in literature and popular culture.

Jana Smith Elford joined the project in 2009; Michelle Di Cintio, Nadine Adelaar, and Rebecca Blain in 2011.

CWRC students who have worked in collaboration with Orlando: Larissa Swayze, Jessica Rattcliffe, Breanna Mroczek, Elena Dergacheva.

Special thanks to those who have volunteered as research assistants: Justine Baskey, Abigail Chapman, Sydney Kruth, Alison Uttley. Erik Drebit and Kirsten Nicholson also contributed to the project in connection with coursework.

Advisory Panel

Virginia Blain, Associate Professor of Victorian and Modern Literature at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, is one of the authors of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women’s Writing from the Middle Ages to the Present. She has edited various titles including Wilkie Collins’s No Name for Oxford University Press, and two volumes with Isobel Armstrong: Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730 – 1820, and Women’s Poetry, late Romantic to late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1820 – 1900, both 1999. In 1998 she published Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786 – 1854: The Making of a Woman Writer.

Marilyn Butler, FRSL, FRSA, has done major work on Romantic and eighteenth-century British Literature, and in feminist criticism and literary-historical methodology. Her major publications include Maria Edgeworth: a Literary Biography, 1972, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, 1975, Peacock Displayed, 1979, and Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries, 1981. She has edited, among other titles, Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy, 1984, Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1989, Frankenstein, 1993, and the Pickering edition of Edgeworth. Formerly King Edward VII Professor at Cambridge, she has recently retired as Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.

Paul Delany has been involved with computers and the humanities for more than a decade, and has co-edited two books in the area with George Landow: Hypermedia and Literary Studies, 1991, and The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities, 1993. His other publications include D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare: The Writer and His Circle in the Years of the Great War, 1978. He is currently working on two literary projects (the postmodern city, and English literature and the financial culture). He is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

Patricia Demers is Professor of English at the University of Alberta and Vice-President of SSHRC. Her major publications include The World of Hannah More, 1996; A Seasonal Romance: Louis Hemon’s Maria Chapdelaine, 1993; Heaven Upon Earth: The Form of Moral and Religious Children’s Literature to 1850, 1993; Women as Interpreters of the Bible, 1992; and P. L. Travers, 1991, and on CD-ROM, 1995. She has edited A Garland from the Golden Age: An Anthology of Children’s Literature from 1850 to 1900, 1983; and co-edited From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children’s Literature to 1850, 1982. Her research interests include Jacobean drama; 17th-century poetry; biblical literature; and children’s literature.

Julia Flanders is Director of the Brown University Women Writers Project, where she was formerly Textbase Manager. She is currently working on a PhD in English at Brown. Her research concerns include editorial theory and its relationship to electronic textuality, the history and gender politics of scholarly editing, and approaches to documentary transcription in TEI/SGML.

Susan Hockey is now Professor of Library and Information Studies at University College, London. From 1997 to 1999 she was the Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts at the University of Alberta. Previously (1991 – 97), the Director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) and (until 1991) the Director of Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford University, she has taught courses on humanities computing and is the author of A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities, and the Micro-OCP Manual.

Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of Cultural History at the University of East Anglia (UK): she is currently seconded to head a new research institute at Cambridge University. She has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Essex. She has published widely on cultural history, on gender, and on medical history. Among her essays the following are noteworthy: “Gender and the Historiography of Science,” British Journal for the History of Science, 26, 1993; “The Art and Science of Seeing in Medicine: Physiognomy 1780 – 1820,” Medicine and the Five Senses, ed W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter, 1993; and “Museums: Representing the Real?” in Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture, ed George Levins, 1993. Her books includeSexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine, 1989, Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760 – 1820, 1999, and History in Practice, 2000.

Peter J. M. Lown, QC, has an LLB (Hons.) from the University of Glasgow and a Master’s from the University of Saskatchewan. He joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta in 1969 and became a Professor in 1980. He was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1973 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1994. He practises in the area of Family, Conflicts, Corporate, and Intellectual Property Law, and teaches Intellectual Property, Communications Law, and Entertainment Law. He was heavily involved in the development of computer databases and the integration of micro-computers into the teaching and practice of law. He has published extensively in the Communications and Corporate areas, among others. After a year as special counsel to the Alberta Law Reform Institute to report on electronic depositories and transfer of securities, he was appointed Director of the Institute, a position he still holds. He has recently been concentrating on pilot projects on Caseflow Management, proposals for the recognition of judgments with the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, and a possible comprehensive revision of the Rules of Court. In January 2001 he received the Law Society CBA Award for Distinguished Service to Legal Scholarship.

Jane Marcus is Distinguished Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Graduate Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her major publications include Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy, 1987, and Art and Anger, 1988. She has edited New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf, 1981, The Young Rebecca West, 1982, Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant, 1983, Suffrage and the Pankhursts, 1987, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, 1987, and Virginia Woolf: Cambridge and A Room of One’s Own: “The Proper Upkeep of Names, 1996. Her current work is on modernism, feminist theory and criticism, canonicity, and women’s autobiography and biography.

Juliet McMaster, FRSC, is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta. Her major publications include Thackeray: The Major Novels, 1971, Jane Austen on Love, 1978, Trollope’s Palliser Novels, 1978, and Dickens the Designer, 1987. With R. D. McMaster, she wrote The Novel from Sterne to James, 1981. She has written widely on eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, including much on Austen, George Eliot, Frances Burney, and Emily Brontë. She has edited with Bruce Stovel Jane Austen’s Business: Her World and Her Profession, 1996, and with Edward Copeland The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 1997.

Patricia Prestwich is Professor of History, in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. Her area of specialization is French history and she is currently working in the area of psychiatric history, particularly women and madness, and also on conservative women and politics.

Bonnie Kime Scott is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Joyce and Feminism, the Gender of Modernism: a Critical Anthology, and a 2-volume study centring on Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West and Djuna Barnes, Refiguring Modernism. Her edition of Rebecca West’s letters was published by Yale University Press in 2000.

Ann B. Shteir is Associate Professor of Humanities at York University, and also part of the School of Women’s Studies at York University. Her research has been in eighteenth-century women’s writing, women’s writing and science culture, women and botanical culture. Her book Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 won the 1996 Joan Kelly Prize from the American Historical Association. She co-edited with Barbara T. Gates Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, 1997.

Former Staff Members and Collaborators

Sharon Farnel, MA, MLIS, was Textbase Manager for the Orlando Project from 2000-2008. In September of that year she began work as a full-time sessional Librarian with the University of Alberta. Currently, her work with the Library is in two areas. The first is web development, where she works as part of the team responsible for the look and feel, content and architecture of the Library’s website. The second is metadata, where she works as part of the digitization team on metadata structure and content for a variety of ongoing and upcoming digital projects with which the Library is involved. Her research interests include metadata standards and crosswalking, and the online information seeking behaviours of humanities scholars. In her free time she enjoys walking and skating, watching sports of all kinds (particularly hockey and soccer) and book collecting.

Benjamin Authers is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. His current research looks at how concepts of responsibility function in the law and literature of nineteenth-century Canada to create and reinforce certain culturally-privileged ideas of behaviour, citizenship, and the ideal nation. This work builds upon the interdisciplinary work in Law and Literature of his doctoral dissertation, an analysis of human rights in contemporary Canadian legal and literary texts, as well as his ongoing research in nineteenth-century fiction from across the British Empire. In addition to his work with Orlando, Ben’s research has been published in University of Toronto Quarterly, The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, and The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Allen Renear, Project Co-investigator, received an AB from Bowdoin College and an AM and PhD from Brown University, specializing in knowledge representation and the philosophy of science. After spending several years teaching philosophy and running an electronic publishing business he joined Brown’s Computing and Information Services in 1984, working first as a systems analyst and project leader, and then as a strategic planner. During this time he consulted on or managed many humanities computing projects and became involved in a variety of text encoding and computing activities including participating in X3V1.TG8 (the ANSI Technical Group which developed SGML) and serving on the Advisory Board of the Text Encoding Initiative. He later served as interim Director for Technology at the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory, becoming Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, as well as Director of the Women Writers Project, President of the Association for Humanities Computing (ACH), and an adjunct Professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is now a Professor at the University of Illinois.

Former Project Members

Barbara Alvarez	Nazareth Arabaghian
Michelle Balen	Shauna Barry
Janice Beaveridge	Katherine Binhammer
Rebecca Blasco	Melisa Brittain
Inge Brown	Jocelyn Brown
Pippa Brush	Terry Butler
Kris Calhoun	Kathryn Carter
Jennifer Chambers	Ben Chen
Tina Cheng	Karen Chow
Joanna Cockerline	Cindy Couldwell
Greg Coulombe	Tamara de Dominicis
Leslie Dema	Jason Dewinetz
Paul Dyck	Carmen Ellison
Barbara Falk	Sue Fisher
Anna Ford	Alyson Fortowsky
Ernst Gerhardt	Dave Gomboc
Cathy Grant	George Grinnell
Alexandra Guselle	Katherine Hanz
Kathryn Harvey	Andrea Hasenbank
Jane Haslett	Debra Henderson
Lisa Hennigar	Catherine Higginson
Kathryn Holland	Karine Hopper
Deirdre Hunt	Chelsea Jack
Marilyn Jones	Nicole Keating
Devorah Kobluk	Deanna Kruger
Kate Lane-Smith	Joanna Langille
Julien Lapointe	Carolyn Lee
Nadine LeGier	Mary Elizabeth Leighton
Andrew Mactavish	Roxanne Maharaj
Kristen Mandziuk	Ozma Mazood
Heather McAsh	Margaret McCutcheon
Mark McCutcheon	Aimée Morrison
Don Myroon	Catherine Nelson-McDermott
Tram Nguyen	Ananda Pellerin
Roland Penner	Mike Plouffe
Anthony Purgas	Quinn Elizabeth
Robyn Read	Ashley Reid
Julie Ruel	Maitreyi Sanjay
Laura Schechter	Janice Schroeder
Jessie Scoble	Caley Skinner
Kayla Snyder	Kevin Spencer
Laura Stenberg	Sarah Timleck
Kristina Trevors	Jill Tzupa
Sylvia Vance	Jeanne Wood
Katherine Woodman	Samantha West