"In this presentation, using live musical performances of 19th century art song, I will explain how pedagogues can promote interdisciplinarity and integrated learning that catalyzes academic inquiry. Using Hannah Arendt’s lens of art as ‘Verwandlungen, i.e. ‘transfigurations’ as a theoretical foundation, I will argue that challenging academic subjects such as hermeneutics, intertextuality, subject-object dualities, epistemes, historicity, and bias might be hard to convey in purely academic terms yet are much more understandable and teachable in a space of integrative and reflective interdisciplinary learning that employs music and the visual arts as tools to examine texts and the process of meaning-making. I will show and explain how--by using live vocal performance of classical art song and the visual arts--pedagogues and academicians can discover heuristics and methods that break boundaries across disciplines to help students experience a journey of internal reflection and a sense of deep discovery as part of the learning process. (Note: I will provide a pianist to accompany my singing. In addition to being a PhD student at Lesley University, I am an alumna of Longy School of Music of Bard College where I graduated with an undergraduate and a Masters in vocal performance.) "