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Dr. Jessica DeSpain was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities in support of “The Hub,” a collaborative digital humanities initiative focused on recovering forgotten or little-known literature by women authors in digital environments. According to DeSpain, “This is an extension of recovery work feminist scholars have been doing this recovery work in scholarly publications and classrooms for decades, with authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, and María Ruiz de Burton (re)appearing in print and digital publications.”