Due to the inadequacy of the exploration into social, cultural, historical, and political meanings of teachers’ emotion labor in the current literature of teacher emotions, this book, authored by Professor Benesch, reviews the concepts of emotion and emotion labor, as well as the trends and limitations of research on teacher emotions. Based on a qualitative research on the emotion labor of English teachers in an American university, it also investigates the socio-cultural and political meanings of teachers’ emotion labor from the post-structuralist, discursive, and critical perspectives. This book offers theoretical and practical implications to foreign language teaching and domestic research on English teacher development.