eLabs & Community Events
Exploring the Field of Recovery and Its Role within the Classroom
June 15, 2026 – June 19, 2026 Eastern Time
Are you looking for engaging ways to get your students working with primary sources? Join eLaboratories at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute from June 15-19 for a workshop on “Exploring the Field of Recovery and Its Role Within the Classroom.”
This workshop aims to introduce educators to the field of recovery and its value as a pedagogical tool. The course will begin by introducing the goals of recovery and what it may look like in practice: from projects incorporating creative expression, gaming, and other multi-disciplinary approaches for interrogating or speculating upon archival silences; to projects working to protect or promote texts, materials, or perspectives that have been ignored, overshadowed, dismissed or forgotten. Following this introduction, course instructors will guide participants through the process of planning a recovery project for their classroom. The workshop will conclude by discussing resources that will support participants in continuing project planning well beyond the end of the workshop. The intended audience for this workshop is educators who are working with students of any age group/level.
This course is jointly sponsored by eLaboratories and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and will be taught collaboratively by Katie Blizzard and Dr. Noelle A. Baker.
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About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Noelle A. Baker, an independent scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of Scholarly Editing, an open-access, peer reviewed journal archived by the U.S. Library of Congress and distributed by the University of Virginia Press. She is the editor of Stanton in Her Own Time (Iowa, 2016), the co-editor of Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Library of America, 2025) and The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition (Women Writers Online, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, ongoing), and the author of essays on American literature and culture published in journals such as ESQ, The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, Poe Studies, and Resources for American Literary Study. Currently, Baker serves as an NHPRC Commissioner, steering committee member for the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers, and eLabs advisory board member; previous roles include co-chair of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions and president of The Association for Documentary Editing.
Katie Blizzard is the Managing Director of eLaboratories and a research editor at the Center for Digital Editing, where she supports the editorial practices of community and partner projects. She holds a BA in Anthropology and History, and a master in public administration. Blizzard contributes to the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) e-newsletter and served as secretary for the ADE from 2021 to 2023.
