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)).

  • THE GENERATIONAL DIVIDE IN ENGLISH STUDIES (IN SPAIN)

    A week ago, as soon as I returned from the national conference of English Studies, I sent a joint email to five young scholars who had discussed SF in their presentations. I presented myself as the Spanish representative of the Science Fiction Research Association and the author of a recent book on masculinity and SF.…

  • LA BRECHA GENERACIONAL EN LOS ESTUDIOS INGLESES (EN ESPAÑA)

    Hace una semana, en cuanto regresé del congreso nacional de Estudios Ingleses, envié un mensaje conjunto a cinco jóvenes investigadoras que habían hablado sobre ciencia ficción en sus presentaciones. Me presenté como representante española de la Science Fiction Research Association y autora de un libro reciente sobre masculinidad y ciencia ficción. Les expliqué que el…

  • THIRTY YEARS OF CULTURAL STUDIES IN SPAIN: SUCCESS AND FAILURE

    I have just come back from Vitoria-Gasteiz, where the colleagues of the English Department at the University of the Basque Country have organized the 48th AEDEAN conference, a yearly meeting which gathers together many Spanish specialists in English Studies. David Walton, a recently retired teacher at the Universidad de Murcia, and a dear colleague, proposed…

  • TREINTA AÑOS DE ESTUDIOS CULTURALES EN ESPAÑA: ÉXITOS Y FRACASOS

    Acabo de regresar de Vitoria-Gasteiz, donde los colegas del Departamento de Inglés de la Universidad del País Vasco han organizado la 48ª conferencia AEDEAN, un encuentro anual que reúne a muchos especialistas españoles en Estudios Ingleses. David Walton, profesor de la Universidad de Murcia recientemente jubilado y querido colega, propuso que algunos de nosotros celebráramos…

  • THE EDITOR’S JOB: SOME CONSIDERATIONS

    I attended yesterday the talk at Barcelona’s Festival 42 by US horror author Grady Hendrix, a man who looks disconcertingly like actor Brady Cooper’s brother or cousin. Hendrix has made a name for himself as an author who combines the gruesome, the shocking, and the humorous in his novels, though I must confess that I…