The Joys of Teaching Literature, started in September 2010 and with a Spanish version since July 2021, is a blog for ranting and raving about teaching and researching English Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies, and other aspects of the Anglophone world. I publish a post once a week, usually on Monday. Please, download the yearly volumes for free or read the volume collecting some of the entries (Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of English Literature, 2023). The comments option is not available, sorry, but you may contact me through my e-mail address, Sara.Martin@uab.cat. The contents of this blog are protected by a type 4 Creative Common License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)).
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THE VALUE OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: RESISTING MANIPULATION, ABUSE, AND EXPLOITATION
I’m teaching this semester the core subject ‘Contemporary Anglophone Literature: 1990 to the Present’, which we introduced last year in the fourth year of our English Studies BA. I was presenting the introduction to the first unit, 1990-1997, with a survey of the main political, social, and technoscientific events, when I noticed that most persons…
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EL VALOR DE LA CULTURA GENERAL: FRENAR LA MANIPULACIÓN, EL ABUSO Y LA EXPLOTACIÓN
Estoy enseñando este semestre la asignatura troncal ‘Literatura anglófona contemporánea: 1990 hasta el presente’, que introdujimos el año pasado en el cuarto año de nuestro Grado en Estudios Ingleses. Estaba presentando la introducción a la primera unidad, 1990-1997, con un resumen de los principales eventos políticos, sociales y tecnocientíficos, cuando noté que la mayoría de…
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BACK TO ADAPTATION STUDIES: THE MATTER OF THEORIZATION (AND KAMILLA ELLIOTT)
Back in 1992, when I started writing the shorter dissertation in our doctoral programme (the equivalent of an MA dissertation, since we didn’t have yet MA programmes in Spain), I truly thought that my main field of research would be Adaptation Studies. My short dissertation dealt with the film adaptation of the novel by John…
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RETORNO A LOS ESTUDIOS DE LA ADAPTACIÓN: LA CUESTIÓN DE LA TEORIZACIÓN (Y KAMILLA ELLIOTT)
En 1992, cuando comencé a escribir la tesina de doctorado (el equivalente a una de máster, ya que aún no teníamos programas de este tipo en España), pensaba que mi principal campo de investigación iban a ser los Estudios de la Adaptación. Mi tesina trató sobre la adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de John Fowles,…