This is a graduate-level methodology course focused on the use of creative, experimental, and artistic methods in the production of peer-reviewed, scholarly research. The course will draw on examples of creative methodologies from ethnic studies, women of color feminisms, Indigenous studies, queer/trans theory, environmental humanities, and other fields that are increasingly open to interdisciplinary and experimental forms. Students will examine the connection between research and the craft of writing to understand how critical ethics, relationships, and objects of research can drive the need for experimentation and creativity in the development of analytical methods and processes. We will also look at how theoretical movements, women of color critique, Indigenous resurgences, and activist / insurgent knowledges have driven creative moves in scholarly work. Throughout the course, students will practice a variety of critical-creative forms, workshop a project that is appropriate for creative experimentation, and use course readings and outside research to draft a “methods section” of their project to define and justify their methodologies.