The collaborative project between Professor Marisa Belausteguigoitia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Professor Andrew Parker (Rutgers) included the participation of graduate students at Northwestern University, Fordham, Rutgers, and UNAM, as well as the guest participation of Professor Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern), with the consultation of Rutgers professors Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel and Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui.

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Through workshops and cross-institutional visits the project developed malleable pedagogical tools for teaching within the frame of the transnational, expansive classroom that breaches the academic world toward its fringes. 

The first workshop was led by Marisa Belausteguigoitia and the Mexico City based Colectivo Las Penélopes at Fordham University during the first event of “Hacer Escuela/Inventing School" (another sub-project of CTGS). The project's second workshop took place in Mexico City and included a visit to the all-women’s prison, Santa Martha Catitla. The culminating workshop, "Errant Syllabi" was hosted by Northwestern Univesity in downtown Chicago. It was designed with the goal of producing innovative academic syllabi in the field of Latinx and Latin American Gender Theory. Centering on a series of presentations and collaborative meetings, it formed a new model for syllabus workshops catering to the needs of both doctoral students and faculty. 

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The project resulted in the creation of a new critical theory course on the University and Its Publics and the creation of bibliographies that foster creative thinking, theoretical activism, and collective action while focusing on critical theory and the public role of the university.

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