Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory

“Canada and the Spanish Civil War: a Digital Research Environment” The Digital Research Environment is a long-term, multi-phase project that will provide integrated public access to the large amount of diverse Canadian cultural materials concerning the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The conflict animated Canadian public discourse, and inspired nearly…

CWRC’s first conference, Canadian Women Writers: Connecting Texts and Generations, in Edmonton in the fall of 2010 and co-organized with the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne, gathered scholars and writers from across and beyond Canada to discuss the significance of women’s writing. Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers…

Islandora‘s Discovery Garden is working with the Editing Modernism in Canada project to produce a Digital Humanities Sprout.

Islandora‘s Discovery Garden is working with the Editing Modernism in Canada project to produce a Digital Humanities Sprout.

Workflow is related to several projects within CWRC. Stan Ruecker of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s School of Design is leading work on experimental interfaces for workflow management in conjunction with the Implementing the New Knowledge Environment (INKE) project. Eleni Stroulia of the Software Engineering Research Lab at…

Workflow is related to several projects within CWRC. Stan Ruecker of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s School of Design is leading work on experimental interfaces for workflow management in conjunction with the Implementing the New Knowledge Environment (INKE) project. Eleni Stroulia of the Software Engineering Research Lab at…

A collections management prototype that came out of the Mashing Texts project, Just in Time Research is a prototype of a system to streamline the exploration of digital resources.

A collections management prototype that came out of the Mashing Texts project, Just in Time Research is a prototype of a system to streamline the exploration of digital resources.

On-line Profiles of Canadian Women Playwrights is a scholarly project which will address a widening void in theatre scholarship in Canada: the absence of scholarship addressing current work by contemporary women playwrights in Canada. As a demographic, women are clearly having a large impact on the shape of…

On-line Profiles of Canadian Women Playwrights is a scholarly project which will address a widening void in theatre scholarship in Canada: the absence of scholarship addressing current work by contemporary women playwrights in Canada. As a demographic, women are clearly having a large impact on the shape of…

This project involves the clean-up and migration of data on Atlantic Canadian theatre currently contained in obsolete and now unsupported web pages and databases at the University of New Brunswick. The html pages and data (performance calendars, theatre playbills, Canadian theatre studies bibliographies, and a theatrical chronology) will…

This project involves the clean-up and migration of data on Atlantic Canadian theatre currently contained in obsolete and now unsupported web pages and databases at the University of New Brunswick. The html pages and data (performance calendars, theatre playbills, Canadian theatre studies bibliographies, and a theatrical chronology) will…

Chercheure principale : Lucie Hotte, Université d’Ottawa   Ce projet de recherche, financé par la Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne (Université d’Ottawa) et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, comprend deux volets : 1) Évolution de la critique littéraire en Ontario français 2) Chantier Ottawa…

Chercheure principale : Lucie Hotte, Université d’Ottawa   Ce projet de recherche, financé par la Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne (Université d’Ottawa) et le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, comprend deux volets : 1) Évolution de la critique littéraire en Ontario français 2) Chantier Ottawa…

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project explores the potential of using a digital research environment to recover Canadian contributions to the gay liberation movement. The LGLC project reconfigures Donald McLeod’s remarkable monograph, Lesbian and Gay Liberation In Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975, as a resource…

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project explores the potential of using a digital research environment to recover Canadian contributions to the gay liberation movement. The LGLC project reconfigures Donald McLeod’s remarkable monograph, Lesbian and Gay Liberation In Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975, as a resource…

“The City, Urban Cultures and Sustainable Literatures: Representations of the Anglo-Canadian Post-Metropolis”  intends to provide an interdisciplinary articulation of representations of the city in contemporary Canadian literatures, arts, and cultures in English, and counts on the participation of renowned scholars from Canada, the UK and Spain. It is…

“The City, Urban Cultures and Sustainable Literatures: Representations of the Anglo-Canadian Post-Metropolis”  intends to provide an interdisciplinary articulation of representations of the city in contemporary Canadian literatures, arts, and cultures in English, and counts on the participation of renowned scholars from Canada, the UK and Spain. It is…

Our lead project in this initiative is an edition of Wilfred Watson’s first play, Cockcrow and the Gulls, produced by the University of Alberta’s Studio Theatre in March 1962. Gordon Peacock directed the play; Norman Yates served as set designer. Watson began work on Cockcrow as early as 1949 and was…

Our lead project in this initiative is an edition of Wilfred Watson’s first play, Cockcrow and the Gulls, produced by the University of Alberta’s Studio Theatre in March 1962. Gordon Peacock directed the play; Norman Yates served as set designer. Watson began work on Cockcrow as early as 1949 and was…

Our pilot project with the John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael’s is an edition of the letters Sheila and Wilfred wrote one another between 1956 and 1961; at that time, she was a graduate student in Toronto studying for her doctorate under the supervision of Marshall McLuhan while Wilfred, a…

Our pilot project with the John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael’s is an edition of the letters Sheila and Wilfred wrote one another between 1956 and 1961; at that time, she was a graduate student in Toronto studying for her doctorate under the supervision of Marshall McLuhan while Wilfred, a…

This archival project will examine how girlhoods were conceived in Australian, New Zealand and Canadian print cultures from their colonial infancy to the development of distinct national identities and literatures.

This archival project will examine how girlhoods were conceived in Australian, New Zealand and Canadian print cultures from their colonial infancy to the development of distinct national identities and literatures. It will interrogate representations of colonial girls as adaptations of British imperial femininity and will show how these…

An archival project exploring mainstream anglophone and francophone Canadian magazines and their role in constructing the relationship between travel and the culture of aspiration.

The research focuses on an area of Canadian print culture which, though extremely influential, has been almost entirely neglected by critics: the middlebrow periodical market. It investigates the aspirational dimension of Canadian middlebrow culture, using magazine writing on travel as a focus. The aims are to understand the…

The days of the “national narrative” are behind us, because Canada is too diverse and changing too rapidly for a single story to contain the complexity of women’s cultural production.

The days of the “national narrative” are behind us, because Canada is too diverse and changing too rapidly for a single story to contain the complexity of women’s cultural production.

This new media research project studies and documents the historical, bibliographical and interpretive relationship between ads and literary materials in sample issues of Canadian modernist periodicals.

This new media research project studies and documents the historical, bibliographical and interpretive relationship between ads and literary materials in sample issues of Canadian modernist periodicals.

La base de données du CSÉC, ORCA, sera alimentée entre autres par une grande variété de documents provenant de la majorité des recherches sur les oeuvres canadiennes. Ces documents, tirés de données préexistantes qui seront converties et améliorées, incluront des données biographiques et bibliographiques ainsi que des données…

The CWRC project aims to deliver an online system that enables unprecedented avenues for studying Canada’s literary heritage.

Who was she, and what did she write? This project updates and expands an earlier bio-bibliographical database of some 470 Canadian women literary writers, housed at the Simon Fraser University library. The enlarged version (of well over 1000 names) will include all notable English-language writers active before 1950…

This database will include biographical and bibliographical information on well over 1000 women who wrote in English in many genres before 1950.

Cette recherche (CRSH) a pour principal objectif de contribuer à renouveler les perspectives par lesquelles on aborde l’histoire littéraire au féminin en mettant en valeur les principes de filiation et en étudiant les stratégies à l’aide desquelles les femmes qui écrivent cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe…

Cette recherche va renouveler les perspectives par lesquelles on aborde l’histoire littéraire au féminin en mettant en valeur les principes de filiation et en étudiant les stratégies à l’aide desquelles les femmes qui écrivent cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle rendent leur pratique d’écriture acceptable.

Dans le contexte des travaux du CSÉC, l’équipe de La vie littéraire au Québec collabore à un projet pilote visant le partage des renseignements sur les trajectoires des femmes qui participent à la vie littéraire au Québec, du tournant du XXe siècle aux années 1930.

  Dans le contexte des travaux du CSÉC, l’équipe de La vie littéraire au Québec collabore à un projet pilote visant le partage des renseignements sur les trajectoires des femmes qui participent à la vie littéraire au Québec, du tournant du XXe siècle aux années 1930.

This research project seeks to document and analyze the current state of regional literature for children and young adults in Atlantic Canada, and to create an authoritative website devoted to contemporary Atlantic Canadian literature for children and teens.

This research project seeks to document and analyze the current state of regional literature for children and young adults in Atlantic Canada, and to create an authoritative website devoted to contemporary Atlantic Canadian literature for children and teens.

The Cabaret Commons is a research-creation project that builds a dynamic online place for feminist and queer artists and audiences to gather, to “hook up” and collaborate, and to share their archives and anecdotes.

The Cabaret Commons is a research-creation project that builds an online place for feminist and queer artists and audiences to gather, to “hook up” and collaborate, and to share their archives and anecdotes; these activities will populate the Cabaret Commons. In addition to being an archival environment, The…

Project Lead: Sheena Wilson This project aims to create a digital archive of material on Japanese Canadian history, with a specific focus on the representation of Second World War evacuation from the West Coast.  Recovery work, and making that information easily accessible through publication on the digital commons,…

Project Lead: Sheena Wilson This project aims to create a digital archive of material on Japanese Canadian history, with a specific focus on the representation of Second World War evacuation from the West Coast.  Recovery work, and making that information easily accessible through publication on the digital commons,…

The report of the Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture Group is now available as a pdf (web version coming soon). Lasting Change (available by clicking here) is a Knowledge Synthesis on the Digital Economy funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada from August…

The report of the Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture Group is now available as a pdf (web version coming soon). Lasting Change (available by clicking here) is a Knowledge Synthesis on the Digital Economy funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada from August…

Here’s an interesting initiative on the part of the ACH to try to get DH funders to put guidelines in place for sustaining the results of the research they fund (reposting from Humanist List): Bethany Nowviskie, on behalf of the ACH (Association for Computers in the Humanities) is…

Here’s an interesting initiative on the part of the ACH to try to get DH funders to put guidelines in place for sustaining the results of the research they fund (reposting from Humanist List): Bethany Nowviskie, on behalf of the ACH (Association for Computers in the Humanities) is…

Canadian Women Writing and Reading from 1950 is an open-access database illustrating the immense productivity of Canadian women writers within the rapidly changing culture of the mid twentieth century to the present day.

Canadian Women Writing and Reading from 1950 is an open-access database illustrating the immense productivity of Canadian women writers within the rapidly changing culture of the mid twentieth century to the present day.