When the new Head of Department was appointed back in February 2023, we also appointed informally a ‘party planning committee’, constituted by two of my colleagues and myself. Perhaps you are part of that kind of Department in which people meet regularly for coffee breaks and lunch, and after hours for drinks, meals, or partying, […]
Cuando se escogió la nueva Dirección del Departamento en febrero de 2023, también nombramos informalmente un comité de festejos, constituido por dos de mis colegas y por mí. Tal vez seáis parte de ese tipo de Departamento en el que la gente se reúne regularmente para tomar café y almorzar, y al acabar la jornada […]
It’s been six weeks since I last wrote in this blog, the longest break I have taken since I started it back in 2010 and, hence, a cause for reflection on time and tiredness. In these weeks I have seriously considered closing down the blog, fearing that I simply have no time for it. A […]
Han pasado seis semanas desde la última vez que escribí en este blog, el descanso más largo que me he tomado desde que lo comencé en 2010 y, por lo tanto, un motivo de reflexión sobre el tiempo y el cansancio. En estas semanas me he planteado seriamente cerrar el blog, temiendo que simplemente no […]
Even though I have been teaching H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) for a few years now, it seems I have not written about this novel here. A bit odd. Since I am most likely saying goodbye to it, this is perhaps the right moment to discuss its racist, colonial content, the issue on […]
A pesar de que llevo enseñando Las minas del Rey Salomón (1885) de H. Rider Haggard algunos años, parece que no he escrito nada sobre esta novela aquí. Es raro. Dado que lo más probable es que me esté despidiendo de Haggard, este es quizás el momento adecuado para discutir el contenido racista y colonial […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]