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The affective turn in writing studies, the author argues, has actually gone through two phases. or three if one counts the expressionist work on "finding one's voice" that he dubss Phase Zero. Phase one runs from Alice Glarden Brand through Sue McLeod, and contains mostly empirical studies of affect in the classroom; Phase Two begins with Lynn Worsham's "Going Postal" and contains mostly theoretical studies of viral ecologies of affect. This book offers a signal contribution to Phase two retheorizing affective ecologies as somatic exchanges and exploring their operation and how to enchance their operation - in the writer reader relationship the classroom and the writing program

Douglas Robinson is an American academic scholar, translator, and fiction-writer who is best known for his work in translation studies, but has published widely on various aspects of human communication and social interaction (American literature, literary theory, linguistic theory, gender theory, writing theory, rhetorical theory). Robinson is currently Dean of the Arts Faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University.