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 from https://ddd.uab.cat/record/116328, 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)).

  •  THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT: THE BON JOVI DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES – REFLECTIONS ON THE AGEING MALE ROCK STAR

    My post today is a sort of belated coda to the book I published last year, American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask (see my post on this book), whose Spanish self-translation Detrás de la máscara: masculinidades americanas en el documental contemporáneo, is now available in open access. In that book…

  • THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT: LA MINISERIE DOCUMENTAL SOBRE BON JOVI – REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA MADUREZ DE LA ESTRELLA DE ROCK MASCULINA

    Mi entrada de hoy es una especie de coda tardía al libro que publiqué el año pasado, American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask (ver mi post sobre este libro), cuya autotraducción al español Detrás de la máscara: masculinidades americanas en el documental contemporáneo, ya está disponible en acceso abierto. En…

  • THE PAPER PROPOSAL: AN OPEN TUTORIAL

    I have just marked 70 paper proposals that my second-year Victorian Literature students have submitted and since the feedback I need to offer might be useful beyond my class, I’m offering it here as a sort of open tutorial.             In our English Studies BA we start using secondary sources in the first year, but…

  • DOING MASCULINITIES STUDIES AS A FEMINIST WOMAN: AIMS AND GAINS

    On Friday I’ll be giving a lecture as the guest of ICGR’s 7th International Conference on Gender Research, to be celebrated at my own university, UAB. The title of my lecture is the one I’m using for this post: ‘Doing Masculinities Studies as a Feminist Woman: Aims and Gains.’ This invitation has reached me at…

  • PRACTICAR ESTUDIOS DE LAS MASCULINIDADES COMO MUJER FEMINISTA: OBJETIVOS Y LOGROS

    El viernes daré una conferencia como invitada de la VII International Conference in Gender Studies Research ó ICGR, que se celebrará en mi propia universidad, la UAB. El título de mi conferencia es el que estoy usando para este post: ‘Practicar Estudios de las Masculinidades como mujer feminista: objetivos y logros’. Esta invitación me ha…