Expanding the field of literacy studies by addressing affect theory--an emerging field of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences-- in this volume scholars from around the world with diverse perspectives on the role of affect in literacy, culture, language, and politics provide an introduction into affect theory and scholarship as it relates to literacy studies. In addition to drawing on data to showcase the difference that a turn to affect makes for understanding literacy practices, the chapters push the boundaries of academic writing and model how theoretically driven writing about affect must itself be moving and expressive. As current theories and research methods in education stutter to know and to express the affective lives of teachers and learners, this book illuminates how the nature of literacy comes to be known differently when we become alive again to affect.