English programs like mine face a particular challenge: implementing a manageable assessment process in an institutional context featuring scarce resources, staff reductions, and heavy teaching loads. We believe our portfolio-based process enables us to assess our program’s effectiveness without reducing our students’ performance to a set of abstract, statistical data.

This article argues for a more complex understanding of interdisciplinary pedagogy in English studies. Drawing on the authors’ experience designing and coteaching a graduate-level interdisciplinary course in “statistical literacy,” the article forwards a view of interdisciplinary pedagogy as a complex relational process of faculty and student learning.