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.
Author(s): Christopher Lloyd, Hilary Emmett
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 237
City: New York
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
