The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies

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The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies 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: those moments when we in the university are caught off-guard and made uncomfortable, or experience joy, anger, boredom, and surprise. Featuring writing by teachers at different stages in their career, institutions, and national or cultural settings, the book is an innovative and necessary addition to both the study of affect, theories of learning and teaching, and the fields of literary and cultural studies. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Affect, Pedagogy, Literary Studies PART I: Textualities and Reading Practices 1. Describing Feeling: How Affect Theory Made Me Better at Teaching Close Reading 2. Queer Theory in the Classroom: Teaching Reparative Reading 3. The Indignant Schoolmaster: Bad Faith Pedagogy and Anne Sullivan’s ‘Little Alabamian’ PART II: ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Feelings 4. Confusion 5. Feeling Failure: Rethinking ‘Negative’ Affect in the Literature Classroom 6. ‘I’m so happy right now!’: Inviting Joy and Excitement into the Literature and Cultural Studies Classroom 7. Dis/comforts PART III: Triggers and Responses 8. Divergent Intensities in the Literature Classroom: Affective Encounters, Critical Control 9. The Busy Have No Time for Tears: Affect as Political Tool in Literary Studies 10. Collective, Anecdotal and Generative Refusal: A Queer-Feminist Pedagogy of the Unknown 11. Teaching While ‘Biting My Lip’: Overcoming Patriarchy in the Classroom PART IV: On Situatedness: Race, Identity, and the (Trans)Cultural 12. Decolonisation and the Desk 13. Fragility and Empathy in the Literature Classroom 14. Affect, History, and Emotional Bridges in Non-Anglophone English Literature Pedagogy 15. Toward a Pedagogy of Pain 16. Coda: Where Do We Go From Here? Index