Getting digital projects off the ground is only the first step to bringing neglected texts by American women authors into the sunlight. Without college/university instructors and high school teachers adopting them in the classroom, these texts may continue to remain forgotten.
This index of teaching materials—including lesson plans, activities, syllabi, and other pedagogical artifacts—aims to provide scholar-educators with free, open-access, and easy-to-use materials to help promote the digital recovery of American women writers in their classrooms. These materials underwent the Recovery Hub’s pedagogical peer review process. They also all were selected for the way they align with the Recovery Hub’s pedagogical mission.
Below, you’ll first find teaching materials that are related specifically to Hub-supported projects, as well as teaching materials about digital recovery more broadly.
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Literary Recovery: Women’s Literary Club of Baltimore
Keywords: literary recovery, minoritized writers, digital literacy, search strategies, full-text, metadata Teaching Materials Developed by: Jean Lee Cole, Loyola University Maryland Peer Reviewed by: Julia Flanders, Northeastern University Formatted by: Alice Martin, Rutgers University PDF version of this lesson plan Introduction: This assignment was used for an upper-division undergraduate English seminar focusing on a women’s…
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VIDEO: Engaging Students in Recovery Work
This Recovery Hub panel discussion focused on strategies and tips for engaging in recovering neglected American women’s literature with students. Moderated by Tracy Fernandez Rysavy. Panelists included:• Dr. Tisha Brooks, author of Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel.• Dr. Kate Adams, Jacquelyne Howard, and Julia Creson from This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books.• Dr. Cindy…
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VIDEO: Using Digital Archives in the Classroom
This Recovery Hub panel discussion focused on strategies and tips for classroom use of existing digital archives/projects with texts by neglected women writers of the Americas. Moderated by Alice Martin. Panelists included:• Dr. Mary Chapman (UBC) of The Winnifred Eaton Archive.• Sydney Lines (UBC) of The Winnifred Eaton Archive.• Dr. Suzanne Edwards (Lehigh) of The Gloria Naylor…
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Exploring Chinatowns
Keywords: Winnifred Eaton, Chinatowns, 20th and 21st centuries, cities, context, class discussion Teaching Materials Developed by: Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow Adapted by: Alice Martin, Rutgers University PDF version of this lesson plan Introduction: This is a lesson-plan for a two-hour seminar focusing on the theme of “Chinatown.” It was part of a masters, level-5…
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Winnifred Eaton Reading Guide Assignment
Keywords: Winnifred Eaton, reading guide, online archives, small group work, orientalism Teaching Materials Developed by: Spencer Tricker, Clark University Adapted by: Alice Martin, Rutgers University PDF version of this assignment Introduction: This assignment comes from an undergraduate course focused on transpacific literary and cultural exchanges in American literature and film. Students completed this assignment after…
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Literary Recovery: Manuscript Transcribing and Editing Exercise
Keywords: May Alcott Nieriker, American literature, literary analysis, editorial practice, digital archive(s), manuscript transcription, textual variants, publishing history, canon formation Teaching Materials Developed/Used by: Professor Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Lewis-Clark State College (American literature, writing, interdisciplinary classes) Peer-Reviewed by: Dr. Janel Simons, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recovery Hub Collaborator: Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, Recovery Hub graduate fellow…
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Oral Responses Using Digital Archival Work
Keywords: oral response, digital archive, communication circuit, reception, undergraduate student analysis. Teaching materials developed by: Dr. Laura Fernandes Laffrado, Western Washington University Peer Reviewed by: Dr. Jean Lee Cole, Loyola University-Maryland Formatted by: Alice Martin, Rutgers University PDF version of this lesson plan Introduction: This assignment has been very successful in an upper-division undergraduate course…
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Close Reading: Digital Archives
Keywords: close reading, digital archives, archival research, collaboration, student reflection Teaching materials developed by: Alice Martin, Rutgers University Peer reviewed by: Dr. Kristen Lillvis, Metropolitan State University PDF of this lesson plan Introduction: This activity, which guides students through using and analyzing a digital archive, was originally taught in a 300–level English course at Rutgers…
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Literary Detectives: Discover and Recover a Neglected Woman Author
Keywords: literary recovery, canon formation, online archives, digital anthology, diverse voices, neglected women authors Teaching Materials Developed/Used by: Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Recovery Hub Collaborator/Peer Reviewer: Dr. Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; Recovery Hub Director PDF version of this lesson plan Introduction: This activity was a late-semester project for my…