Introduction: Teaching beyond dread 1. Beyond a world of dread: A conversation with David Theo Goldberg 2. Higher education as the frontline of democracy: The case against Florida House Bill 233, the anti-shielding/intellectual viewpoint/student recording legislative act 3. Neoliberal dread and the persistence of teaching 4. Fascist politics and the dread of white supremacy in the age of disconnections 5. "This is what we wanted to learn": anti-racist and anti-colonial education with 1st gen Korean American seniors in a time of Asian hate and racialized dread 6. Deconstructing dread: teaching through Black histories 7. Fugitive pedagogies of dread for radical futurity: affective, ontological, and political implications 8. Dread and the automation of education: from algorithmic anxiety to a new sensibility 9. From inevitable disaster to ineradicable possibility: critical pedagogies of ecocide, educational privatization, and new technology 10. Thinking and teaching beyond the terror of capitalist reason 11. danSing for another world: memory a/r/t/s work as creative response 12. Hopelessly joyful in dreadful times