Kevin M. Leander is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA. Christian Ehret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada.

• Part I: Pedagogies Movement 1. Pedagogy under the Waterline of Perceived Value 1. Affective Flows in the Clinic and the Classroom 2. Propositions for a Radical Pedagogy, or How to Rethink Value 3. Charlene’s Puppies: Embarrassing Obsessions or Vibrant Matter Entangled in Ethical Literacies? Part II: Politics Movement 2. Uninterpretable Politics in Literacy Research and Practice 4. Visceral Literacies, Political Intensities: Affect as Critical Potential in Literacy Research and Practice 5. Assembling Desire, Love, and Affect in an Art Museum School 6. ‘It’s something that requires passion’: After-echoes of the Ethnic Studies Ban 7. Thinking and feeling the interval: A few movements of a ‘transnational’ family Part III: Coming to Know Movement 3. Affectively Charged Foldings of Literacy and Coming to Know 8. Why a More Human Literacy Studies must be Posthuman: Encountering Writing During and after the Holocaust 9. Affective Sketches: Writing, Drawing, and Living with Analysis 10. Coded to Smithereens and Danced to Abstraction: Forms of Affect in the Industry of Research 11. Telling Stories Out of Class: Three Movements in a Reach for Affect Afterword