Whereas my MA students rarely skip classes and only do so for justified reasons, I cannot make sense of the attendance pattern in my BA class. There are 63 students officially registered, of whom 58 appear to be following the course according to the exercises handed in and our online activities. However, classroom attendance varies […]
I have written so far two posts on the matter of supervising PhD students (see “A doctoral student abandons: At a loss what to advise…” of 2014, and “Supervising doctoral students: A complicated task” of 2015). Actually, I have published three more posts on doctoral students, but these two are most directly connected with the […]
He escrito hasta ahora dos entradas sobre el tema de la supervisión de estudiantes de doctorado (ver “A doctoral student abandons: At a loss what to advise…” de 2014, y “Supervising doctoral students: A complicated task” de 2015). En realidad, he publicado tres entradas más sobre los estudiantes de doctorado, pero estas dos están más […]
SPOILERS WARNING: This post deals with the nine Expanse novels and discusses the series’ ending. The Expanse is a series of nine space opera novels—Leviathan Wakes (2011), Caliban’s War (2012), Abaddon’s Gate (2013), Cibola Burn (2014), Nemesis Games (2015), Babylon’s Ashes (2016), Persepolis Rising (2017), Tiamat’s Wrath (2019) and Leviathan Falls (2021)—accompanied by a short […]
AVISO DE SPOILERS: esta entrada analiza las nueve novelas de la serie Expanse, incluyendo el final. The Expanse es una serie de nueve novelas del sub-género ópera espacial ya traducidas: Leviathan Wakes [El despertar del Leviatán] (2011), Caliban’s War [La guerra de Calibán] (2012), Abaddon’s Gate [La puerta de Abadón] (2013), Cibola Burn [La quema […]
The title of today’s post is that of the volume I have edited together with my dear friend Isabel Santaulària, Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men. Published a couple of weeks ago, the volume has been in the making for almost three years from conception to publication, a long […]
El título de la entrada de hoy es en parte el del del volumen que he editado junto con mi querida amiga M. Isabel Santaulària, Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men. Publicado hace un par de semanas, el volumen ha estado en preparación durante casi tres años desde su […]
Nine months ago I published the post “Depression and Anxiety: The Main Academic Keywords Today” and I return today to the topic out of a need to process a situation that is beginning to make me quite angry. I am going through a personal complicated period, with immediate material causes that are slowly sorting […]
Hace nueve meses publiqué el post “Depresión y ansiedad: las principales palabras clave en la universidad” y hoy vuelvo al tema por la necesidad de procesar una situación que empieza a enfadarme bastante. Estoy pasando por un período personal complicado, con causas materiales inmediatas que se están resolviendo lentamente (no problemas mentales per se), […]
This post was going to be a formal review of a recent book for the SFRA Review. However, I eventually decided that I could not submit a text of this nature without fully reading the book in question, a task I found impossible to fulfil. Not because the book was not good enough (it is […]