Designed as a short introduction to academic literary studies of affect, Reading Affect in Literary Studies is a one-credit graduate seminar, offered in Spring 2014, that was framed by the question of how we might rethink our practice as scholars of literature to take our scholarship to publics beyond the academy. Readings included work by Rita Felski, Michael Millner, Janice Radway, Ann Cvetkovich, Lauren Berlant, Jonathan Flatley, Brian Massumi, Paul Armstrong, and Woodward; Paul Virilio and Joan Didion; and Julie Ellison, Elise Lemire, and Doran Larson.