When Sarah Walton started working with students on a project in their univ. archives, she was unsure how much worth their work would have outside their area. But students helped her see that valuable DH work could happen in a nontrad locale. #academicsky digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpeda...

The Recovery Hub is accepting submissions for our Online Teaching Resource Library! Submit your unit /lesson plans (and more!) on teaching recovered texts or creating class projects that recover neglected works by women writers of the Americas. 1/3 #academicsky recoveryhub.siue.edu/pedagogical-...

The latest issue of Feminist Pedagogy, "Exploring Digital Recovery Pedagogy Through an Intersectional Feminist Lens" — guest-edited by Recovery Hub's Alice Martin & Tracy Fernandez Rysavy — is packed with inspiration for your recovery pedagogy and projects. digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpeda...

The Black Lit Network @blacklitnetwork.bsky.social provides amazing DH content about African American lit, from podcasts to data visualizations to a directory of U.S. literary archives. They're now on social media! Follow them @ Black Lit Network on Facebook @blacklitnetwork on Instagram.

Do you have a digital project recovering the work of American women writers? Apply now for the Recovery Hub's Project Showcase! Seeking mission-related projects at various stages of completion for peer review + a public showcase + review in "Reviews in Digital Humanities." bit.ly/RH-showcase

The latest issue of our Recovery Hub e-newsletter is out! Get updates on our work, our calls for submissions, and the broader world of feminist literary recovery in Issue #4! Subscribe at bit.ly/recovery-hub.... View the issue directly here: mailchi.mp/9c078393d38c... #academicsky

TODAY! Dr. Meg Smith is panelist #5 for our online panel, "Designing Assignments Using Digital Recovery Projects." She'll discuss how classroom assignments using digital projects get students thinking critically about how technology mediates the humanities. bit.ly/RH-tech-hour... #academicsky

Dr. Marlowe Daly-Galeano is panelist #4 for our online panel, "Designing Assignments Using Digital Recovery Projects." She'll discuss a 4-part editing/transcribing exercise that allows students to see how editorial choices shape a text and effect canon formation. bit.ly/RH-tech-hour... #academicsky

Renata Hall, PhDc is speaker #3 for our online panel "Designing Assignments Using Digital Projects!" She'll talk about a body-mapping exercise she does with Black women to create collaged archives that speak back to dominant narratives about sexuality and reproductive justice. bit.ly/RH-tech-hour...

TWO MORE WEEKS to apply for the grad student Mentorship Match Program from The Society for the Study of American Women Writers. It pairs dissertating grad students working on Amer. women writers with a faculty mentor for the academic year. Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/mentorship-m... #academicsky

Dr. Jean Lee Cole is speaker #2 for our online panel on "Designing Assignments Using Digital Projects!" She'll talk on how you can use the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Archive with students. Learn more and register: recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s... #academicsky

We just added Sarah Walton to our online panel on "Designing Assignments Using Digital Projects!" She'll talk on how diving into local archives helped her & her students realize the value in doing DH work with texts from their Appalachian locale. recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s... #academicsky

As you prep fall classes, help disrupt the literary canon by teaching neglected women & LGBTQ+ writers. Join the Recovery Hub for our FREE Zoom panel, "Designing Assignments Using Digital Projects." Wed., Aug. 6, noon - 1 p.m. CDT. Register: recoveryhub.siue.edu/.../14/summe... #academicsky (1/5)

In 2022, we received an NEH grant to advance our mission to amplify and assist scholars working to digitally recover neglected texts by women writers of the Americas. What did we do with it? A lot! Read all about the Recovery Hub's work in our NEW white paper: recoveryhub.siue.edu/wp-content/u...

Have you been working with an author whose Gothic horror texts have been unjustly neglected? American Gothic Studies Journal welcomes submissions of neglected Am. Gothic texts (<12K words) for its "Exhumations" section. Learn more: www.psupress.org/journals/jnl... #academicsky #americangothic

The Society for the Study of American Women Writers Graduate Student Caucus is calling for participants for their Mentorship Match Program. It pairs dissertating grad students with a faculty mentor for the 2025-2026 academic year. Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/SSAWW-mentor... #academicsky

Want hands-on help building your own digital recovery project? Join Recovery Hub's Jessica DeSpain and Sydney Lines from The Winnifred Eaton Archive on Thurs., Nov. 6 for a two-session workshop on the basics of digital editing at the SSAWW conference. Learn more and register: bit.ly/RH-WEA-works...

DEADLINE EXTENDED for the SSAWW Recovery Hub Digital Edition Prize. The prize recognizes an excellent digital edition recovering the work of American women writers, launched publicly online during the last 5 years (Jan. 2020-Jan. 2025). Submit by August 30, 2025. #academicsky bit.ly/SSAWW-RH-dig...

THIS WEDNESDAY, July 9th, join us for our next free Zoom "Tech Hour" workshop on "Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects," led by Recovery Hub Cultivation Coordinator Emily Rau. Register to get the Zoom link: recoveryhub.siue.edu/.../14/summe...

The Recovery Hub is excited to announce that Dr. Jeannette Schollaert and Ph.D. candidate Fallon Murphy have joined our staff as Showcase Editors, handling our peer review processes for showcase projects and our online resource library. Interested in volunteering? Email us at [email protected].

Join us at noon on July 9 for our next free Zoom "Tech Hour" on "Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects." This session will provide strategies and resources for managing your digital humanities projects. #academicsky #digitalhumanities Register here: recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s...

In honor of Juneteenth, check out the Teaching Hard History podcast from Learning for Justice, to "commit to teaching the hard history that is foundational to the US and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality." Includes episodes centered on film and literature. lfj.pub/hard-history...

Did you know that the Recovery Hub offers free consultations on digital recovery projects? We're here to help you work through questions at any stage of your project, from early imaginings to the final product. #academicsky Book a chat with a digital humanist! calendly.com/recoveryhub-... (1/3)

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

Congratulations to Dr. Jean Lee Cole on the publication of her article (w/ Elizabeth James), "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives," which details her work on recovering the "unknown archive" of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore. Scholarly Editing Journal, #42. doi.org/10.55520/VVZ...

It's a good day to highlight Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, "the premier center for research on Latino documentary history in the US." With documents dating back to colonial times, the program also include 1000s of digitized items, including... #academicsky usldhrecovery.uh.edu (1/2)

This Wed., May 28 at 12 noon Central, join us for our first Tech Hour, "Getting Started with Digital Humanities." This free Zoom session will explore early steps for beginning a digital humanities project. Register and get the Zoom link: recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s... #academicsky

Join us for our FREE Tech Hour Zoom workshops on getting started with digital literary recovery projects, digital humanities project management, and teaching with existing digital recovery projects! All are welcome. #academicsky #disruptthecanon Learn more: recoveryhub.siue.edu/.../14/summe...

In 2020, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant made our work at the Recovery Hub possible. The term for our grant recently ended as scheduled, and we're happy to say we're still here—and we're still working to help you recover neglected works by women writers of the Americas! #academicsky

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers has a new issue! Follow their account @legacy1984.bsky.social to get Digital Media Editor Emma Thiébaut!'s take on what's inside in the coming days. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522

Northern Illinois Univ. Libraries' are raising funds to digitize and preserve its large collection of "The New York Family Story Paper," written by and for women in long 19th c. & featuring authors like Laura Jean Libbey, Nellie Bly, and others. Donate: dog.niu.edu/giving-day/9... #academicsky

Join the Society for the Study of American Women Writers for three Zoom panels showcasing the work of grad student members. Learn about their research and SSAWW’s Mentorship Match Program, which pairs grad students with a faculty mentor for one academic year. bit.ly/SSAWW-grad-p... #academicsky

The Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) has extended the deadline for conference proposals to March 16th! studyamericanwomenwriters.org/ssaww-announ...

Happy International Women's Day from our Recovery Hub team!

Visit the Recovery Hub's Online Teaching Resource Library to find peer-reviewed teaching materials—free, open-access, and easy-to-use lesson plans, digital anthologies, & more to help promote the digital recovery of American women writers in the classroom. recoveryhub.siue.edu/teaching-res...

We offer one FREE consultation per year to those working on digital projects recovering the work of women writers of the Americas—at any stage. Request up to 5/yr. with Hub membership. We welcome projects focusing on neglected women writers of color. #academicsky recoveryhub.siue.edu/consultation/

DEADLINE TODAY! The Recovery Hub is calling for short commentaries (1,000 - 1,200) for a special issue of @feministpedagogy journal on "Teaching Digital Recovery in the Classroom." See our website for the call for papers at bit.ly/feminist-ped... #academicsky

RECOVERED READ: We asked Dr. Meg Toth for a recommendation from Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's work. Dr. Toth is currently developing a digital collection of Holding's short stories--which was one of the Recovery Hub's 2024 Cultivation projects. She recommends Holding's "The Stranger in the Car." /1

Happy New Year! We'd love your help encouraging more people to read and teach neglected women writers in 2025. Do you have a favorite text by an overlooked woman writer of the Americas that you wish more people knew about? Tell us here or tag us @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social! #academicsky

The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is seeking nominees for the 2025 SSAWW Awards. These recognize significant contributions to the study and recovery of American women writers. Submit nominations by Feb. 1. More info: studyamericanwomenwriters.org/ssaww-announ... #academicsky

Happy holidays from the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers!

How can you support the Recovery Hub? 1) Share our social media posts. 2) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @AWWrecoveryhub. 3) Become a member! 4) If you're able, consider donating. 5) Let us know how we can support your efforts to recover women writers of the Americas. recoveryhub.siue.edu

The fifth and last reason to support our work at the Recovery Hub is that it helps disrupt the literary canon. (True story: The image below represents one edition of the top ten "great books" listed at TheGreatestBooks. org.) Learn more about our work and our free services at recoveryhub.siue.edu .

#4: Without educators adopting neglected texts by women writers of the Americas for the classroom, these texts may continue to remain forgotten. We offer peer-reviewed teaching resources to help make it easier than ever to recover these writers with students! recoveryhub.siue.edu/teaching-res...

#3: We offer peer review for digital projects that recover neglected work by women writers of the Americas--at any stage! Our feminist peer-review model provides guidance and mentorship from our digital-humanities experts, plus extra publicity for your project. recoveryhub.siue.edu/peer_review/

We're on day 2 of counting down reasons to support the Recovery Hub: We're seeking funding for our CULTIVATION services, where our experts provide guidance throughout a full year to a team working on a digital project that recovers neglected work by a woman writer of the Americas-and get a stipend!

Counting reasons to support the Recovery Hub: #1: When you join or donate, you support FREE CONSULTATIONS for anyone working on a digital project that recovers neglected writing by women of the Americas. Our DH experts can help you at any stage. Everyone gets 1/yr. Members get 5/yr.

It's Giving Tuesday! Please consider the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers in your year-end giving. Your donations and memberships help us disrupt the literary canon by supporting the recovery of texts by women writers of the Americas. They also help keep our services free. bit.ly/RH-donation

Did you know that our services and resources are all free? Please consider the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers in your year-end giving plans. Even a small donation helps us disrupt the literary canon by supporting the recovery of neglected women writers of the Americas. bit.ly/RH-donation

You've probably heard of Harriet Jacobs, author "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." A narrative by her brother, John Swanson Jacobs, has been published by the University of Chicago Press, newly discovered and recovered in Australia by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder.