Kyle Bladow is an assistant professor of Native American studies at Northland College. Jennifer Ladino is an associate professor of English at the University of Idaho. She is the author of Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature.

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Acknowledgments
Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene
Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino

Part 1. Theoretical Foundations
1. “what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere”: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety
Nicole M. Merola
2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene
Alexa Weik von Mossner
3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality
Neil Campbell

Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice
4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’s Tar Sands
Jobb Arnold
5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn
William Major
6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology
Tom Hertweck
7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment
Ryan Hediger

Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries
8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud
Robert Azzarello
9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene
Brian Deyo
10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Allyse Knox-Russell

Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy
11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect
Nicole Seymour
12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking
Lisa Ottum
13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect
Graig Uhlin
14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula
Sarah Jaquette Ray
List of Contributors
Index