Description: This workshop focuses on the practice of interpreting a literary work through creative projects. Participants experience connecting with a text, emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it to create a new work of art. The activity makes experientially real how treating a piece of writing as a pretext for play replaces fear of difficulty with the motivating energy of engaging with a challenge. Preregistration is required.

Speakers

Lauren Gaskill, U of California, Irvine

Presider

Vialla Hartfield-Méndez, Emory U

Samuel Jaffee, U of Washington, Seattle