Pedagogy ReWritten: Multi-disciplinary Performance Project Comes to U of T

This past fall, an innovative new course was offered in the Department of English & Drama, a lively collaboration which blended traditional literary analysis with student-led research creation; explored embodiment and movement in community; and inspired conversations on the complexities of bringing biography and archival gaps into the undergraduate literature classroom.
ENG366: Melville and Hawthorne ReWritten was organized by Professor Melissa Gniadek, a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, in partnership with Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, co-creators of the ReWritten performance project, which weaves together dance, music, visual art, projection, and text, and reimagines an intergenerational queer love story.