Acknowledgements; Partaking of Pleasure: Regenerating the Working Lives of University Academics; Producing Moments of Pleasure within the Confines of the Neoliberal University; ‘Do What Sustains You’: Desire and the Enterprise University; The Pleasure of Writing: Escape from the Dominant System; Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstasy: Contentious Pleasure (Joussiance) in the Academy; The Joy in Writingassemblage; Female Pleasure in the Academy through Erotic Power; The Intrinsic Pleasure of Being Present with/in Humanistic Research; For Hermann: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways. Or, What My Dog Has Taught Me about a Post-personal Academic Life; Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Future for Academics; Reducing the Drag: Creating V Formations through Slow Scholarship and Story; Testimonio and the Idios Kosmos of the Contemporary Academic: Charting the Possibilities for Pleasure in Personal Accounts from Inside the Academy; Self-Determination Theory and Academic Life: Strategies for Reclaiming Pleasure and Professionalism Distilled from Universities in Australia and Europe; The Pleasure and Pain of Aboriginal Being in the University; Academic Writing, Creative Pleasure and the Salvaging of Joy; From Frustration to Flow: Finding Joy through Co-teaching; Pleasure, Pain and the Possibilities of Being and Becoming: Robustly Hopeful Reflections by an Australian Personal Fitness Trainer and His University Academic Client; “Don’t Cry – Do Research!” The Promise of Happiness for an Academic Killjoy; List of Contributors.