The assignments and testimonies collected on this site are specific to the MSU experience. They cross disciplines and methodologies to help invert the hierarchy of classrooms, introduce material in an equitable fashion, and promote anti-racist pedagogy.
Recently, there has been a growing acknowledgement and call to change the eurocentric confines of Victorian literature and its coinciding institutionalization of knowledge. Ronjaunee Chatterjee's, Alicia Mireles Christoff's, and Amy R. Wong's collaborative article "Undisciplining Victorian Studies" pays acute focus to this academic and sociopolitical problem, citing black studies scholar Christina Sharpe's call to "become undisciplined." "Sharpe registers how academic disciplinary norms continually disavow and distort knowledge, particularly “the kinds of knowledge gained from and of the everyday, from what Dionne Brand calls ‘sitting in the room with history.’” To “become undisciplined” is to reject this partitioning and co-opting of knowledge, and instead to invent “new modes” of research and teaching that offer a “method of encountering” and to which this site is specifically dedicated. Crowdsourced from trans-disciplinary instructors who care deeply about undisciplining the classroom, this website serves as a community to exchange material, pedagogy, and ideas for an increasingly inclusive space.