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)).

  • FIRST THOUGHTS ON MY NEW SUBJECT: ON MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

    2025 is turning out to be one of the worst years in my life as a reader, for two reasons. One is that I find it harder and harder to find novels that interest me, of any type. The other is that since Trump’s election, I’m spending at least two hours a day reading the…

  • PRIMERAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE MI NUEVA ASIGNATURA: MEMORIAS Y AUTOBIOGRAFÍAS

    2025 está resultando ser uno de los peores años de mi vida como lectora, por dos razones. Una es que cada vez me resulta más difícil encontrar novelas que me interesen, de cualquier tipo. La otra es que desde la elección de Trump, paso al menos dos horas al día leyendo la prensa e interactuando…

  • ADOLESCENCE: A LIMITED CONVERSATION

    WARNING: SPOILERS The British Netflix miniseries Adolescence, created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, has taken the world by storm, finally starting a long overdue general conversation on the influence of the manosphere on the aggressive, misogynistic behaviour of teen boys. The four-episode series only maintains a minimum of suspense in the first episode until…

  • ADOLESCENCE: UNA CONVERSACIÓN LIMITADA

    ADVERTENCIA: ESPÓILERS La miniserie británica distribuida por Netflix Adolescence, creada por Stephen Graham y Jack Thorne, ha conquistado el mundo, iniciando al fin una conversación general largamente esperada sobre la influencia de la manosfera en el comportamiento agresivo y misógino de los chicos adolescentes. La serie, de cuatro episodios, solo mantiene un mínimo suspense en…

  • THE LOST SOUL OF THE TEXT (ON HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)

    Sorry about the eleven-day gap without publishing here. I’ve been working full-time for the last two weeks on a book which gathers together selected posts from this blog, in Spanish, covering the last five years since the onset of Covid-19. The book was intended for a prestige Spanish academic publisher, but they told me they…