CHILDREN IN CINEMA:  A NEW SUBJECT

I started three weeks ago a new MA subject on children in Anglophone cinema, under the umbrella label Gender Studies. This is a continuation of a subject I taught three years ago, which resulted in the publication of the e-book by the students Gender in 21st Century Animated Children’s Cinema (check please my post on […]

LOS NIÑOS EN EL CINE: UNA NUEVA ASSIGNATURA

Hace tres semanas comencé una nueva asignatura de máster sobre los niños en el cine anglófono, bajo el paraguas de los Estudios de Género. Se trata de la continuación de una asignatura que impartí hace tres años, y que llevó a la publicación del libro digital escrito por los estudiantes Gender in 21st Century Animated […]

THE VANISHING TEXT: HOW TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IS DYING

Last week I wrote about the sheer amount of bibliography we are using in academic work. I neglected, however, to mention that in textual analysis primary sources are occupying less and less space. In the presentation of my volume La verdad sin fin: Expediente X back in September, Iván Gómez praised me for having the […]

EL TEXTO QUE DESAPARECE: CÓMO ESTÁ MURIENDO EL ANÁLISIS TEXTUAL

La semana pasada escribí sobre la gran cantidad de bibliografía que estamos utilizando en el ensayo académico. Olvidé, sin embargo, mencionar que en el análisis textual las fuentes primarias ocupan cada vez menos espacio. En la presentación de mi volumen La verdad sin fin: Expediente X en septiembre, Iván Gómez me elogió por tener la […]

HOW MUCH BIBLIOGRAPHY IS TOO MUCH?: ON ACADEMIC WRITING TODAY

In the most recent peer reviewing I have passed one of the reviewers complained that I quote too much and should paraphrase more. The article is 8880 words long and has 30 secondary sources, so on average 1 source for about 300 words, apart from the quotations from the primary source (I quoted from it […]

SOBRE ESTE MISMO BLOG: PASSIONATE PROFESSING: THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING LITERATURE

Hoy estoy escribiendo una especie de entrada de metablogging, por dos razones: quiero comentar mi libro más reciente, Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of Teaching Literature, que contiene una selección de entradas publicadas aquí, y me acaban de invitar a escribir un artículo sobre la experiencia de escribir este blog para Nexus, revista de […]

DOING AWAY WITH THE CLASS PARTICIPATION MARK: A DEFEAT

This week we have held in my Department the 10th TELLC (Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture) workshop. This yearly meeting, which I set up after my time as BA Coordinator and still run, is aimed at discussing our experiences as teachers in all the areas and degrees of the Department. The presentations are supposed […]