In August 2026, the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers (https://recoveryhub.siue.edu/) convened a virtual panel focused on strategies for teaching textual recovery projects through an intersectional feminist lens. This panel features the following speakers, who also contributed articles to a special issue of Feminist Pedagogy Journal that was guest edited by Recovery Hub staff:

Renata Hall, PhDc, an Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Consultant at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, discusses how she uses a body-mapping exercise in her workshops with Black women that asks them “to reflect on concepts of sexual care and strength within the context of their lived experiences and digital media consumption.” The end result is an embodied, collaged archive that speaks back to dominant narratives about their sexuality and reproductive justice. Renata Hall is also the co-author of Learning in Colour, an open-access book that provides resources and guidance for university community members regarding the cultivation of safer classroom and campus spaces informed by the experiences and narratives of Black, Indigenous, and racialized students. 

Professors Anna-Lisa Halling and Valerie Hegstrom from Brigham Young University offer insights into how they involved students in the creation and expansion of their ongoing “More Than Muses” digital archive of neglected Iberian women authors from the Middle Ages through the 19th century (https://morethanmuses.byu.edu/).

View the winter 2026 special issue of Feminist Pedagogy Journal on “Restoring Women’s Literary Past in the Classroom: Exploring Digital Recovery Pedagogy Through a Feminist Lens.” This issue features articles from our panel speakers and others, and it was guest-edited by Alice Martin and Tracy Fernandez Rysavy.

The panel was moderated by Tracy Fernandez Rysavy for the Recovery Hub.