"How do you teach through trauma? All college instructors have found themselves facing this question in recent days, but few with the insight and poignancy of Christopher Schaberg. Pedagogy of the Depressed provides both diagnosis and balm for those anxious about the possibilities for higher education in the midst of climate change and active shooter events and pandemic response and budgetary collapse, a profound reckoning with the conditions of learning today." -- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA, and author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University "If the title page didn't say Christopher Schaberg so plainly, I might have assumed the author was Guy Montag, protagonist of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 . Both are suffering through a takeover by the machinery, technological and bureaucratic; both hold onto a humanistic ideal in the midst of it all. Pedagogy of the Depressed is in some ways precisely the opposite of what its title promises: rather than depressing, it's a hopeful pushback against the pervasive air of depression and lowered expectations that has overtaken too many of our classrooms, and whose metaphor-if not cause-is Covid-19 and the ubiquity of the Zoom screen. Come for the jeremiad-but stay for the wise encouragement, that this work we do with students still matters. Perhaps matters more than ever." -- Kevin Dettmar, W.

M. Keck Professor of English and Director, The Humanities Studio, Pomona College, USA.