Consultation

We offer consultation for scholars just beginning a digital recovery project or those wanting a tutorial on a specific digital skill.
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Cultivation

Each year we choose two new recovery projects to receive hosting and technical support.
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Pedagogical Support

We support educators in teaching recovered texts by American women writers in their courses and encouraging recovery assignments and activities.
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Peer Review

We review projects for inclusion in a twice-yearly project showcase.
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Our Mission

The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with network mapping, spatial analysis, multimedia storytelling, innovative contextualization, and the distant reading of massive datasets. The Recovery Hub explores the intersecting relationships between feminist practice, content, and technical specifications with an awareness of the ways that the design and implementation of technology can exclude and objectify people. The Hub fosters collaboration, mentorship, and community-building among women working in the digital humanities while seeking feminist and decolonial approaches to the creation, curation, design, sharing, and archiving of digital content.

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SSAWW Digital Edition Prize

Nominate a digital recovery project for recognition at the 2025 SSAWW conference

Project Showcase

Read about peer reviewed recovery projects and find pedagogical resources

Showcase: This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books

August 22, 2023 Margaret Smith

Project Showcase: This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books Recovery Hub project showcases synthesize materials submitted by the project team and reports […]

Showcase: “The Yellow Wall-Paper” Digital Edition

March 8, 2023 Margaret Smith

Project Showcase: “The Yellow Wall-Paper” Digital Edition Recovery Hub project showcases synthesize materials submitted by the project team and reports […]

Foundational Recovery Projects

Visit these established digital recovery projects

The Colored Conventions Project

Visit the Colored Conventions Project Project Leads Gabrielle Foreman, Co-Director, Founding Director Jim Casey, Co-Director and Co-Founder Lauren Cooper, Project […]

Dickinson Electronic Archives

Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 http://www.emilydickinson.org Project Leads Executive Editor and Coordinator: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland General Editor: Marta […]

The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Visit The Winnifred Eaton Archive Project Leads Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia Jean Lee Cole, Loyola University Maryland Joey […]

The Willa Cather Archive

Visit The Willa Cather Archive

The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition

Visit The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition

The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson

Visit the Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson Project The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital edition Project Directors […]

Our Latest News

May 14, 2025

Summer 2025 Tech Hours

Tech hours are back! As we ease into the summer, join us for a series of tech hours designed to […]

Margaret Smith
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January 16, 2025

Looking for Leadership Volunteers

We are looking for new leadership volunteers to support the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers. Since its founding in […]

Jessica DeSpain
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November 11, 2024

CFP: Short Articles for a Special Issue of Feminist Pedagogy

The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers is calling for articles for a special issue in Feminist Pedagogy on the […]

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