This book considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices.

List of ContributorsAcknowledgements Hilary Emmett and Christopher Lloyd, ‘Introduction: Affect, Pedagogy, Literary Studies’I. Textualities and Reading Practices Jill Noel Fennell, ‘Describing Feeling: How Affect Theory Made Me Better at Teaching Close Reading’ Katherine Parker-Hay, ‘Queer Theory in the Classroom: Teaching Reparative Reading’ Michael J. Collins, ‘The Indignant Schoolmaster: Bad Faith Pedagogy and Anne Sullivan’s "Little Alabamian"’ II. ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Feelings Hannah Murray, ‘Confusion’ Christopher W. Clark, ‘Feeling Failure: Rethinking "Negative" Affect in the University’ Kim Evelyn, ‘"I’m so happy right now!": Inviting Joy and Excitement into the Literature and Cultural Studies Classroom’ Christopher Lloyd, ‘Dis/comforts’ III. Triggers and Responses Brandon L. Sams, ‘Divergent Intensities in the Literature Classroom: Affective Encounters, Critical Control’ Mildrid H. A. Bjerke, ‘The Busy Have No Time for Tears: Affect as Political Tool in Literary Studies’ Declan Wiffen and Betsy Porritt, ‘Collective, Anecdotal, and Generative Refusal: A Queer Feminist Pedagogy of the Unknown’ Crystal Harris, ‘Teaching While "Biting My Lip": Overcoming Patriarchy in the Classroom’ IV. On Situatedness: Race, Identity, and the (Trans)Cultural Alex Rajinder Mason, ‘Decolonisation and the Desk’ Owen Cantrell, ‘Fragility and Empathy in the Literature Classroom’ Myles Chilton, ‘Affect, History, and Emotional Bridges in Non-Anglophone English Literature Pedagogy’ Joanna Davis-McElligatt, ‘Toward a Pedagogy of Pain’ Hilary Emmett, ‘Coda: Where Do We Go From Here?’ Index

"The Affects of Pedagogy gives new knowledge to the overlapping spaces of literary studies, its pedagogies and its affective intersections. Authors work through their thinking on the page, open and available for readers to follow the highs and lows of teaching literary studies. …The collection reignites my passion for the scholarship of teaching and learning in literary studies in the way it triangulates the connection between students and their lived experience, instructors as affective domains of vulnerable knowledge, and literary texts as windows on the world and doorways to new thinking."-Tully Barnett (she/her), Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, Flinders University, Australia