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)).

  •  IN AND OUT OF THE RABBIT HOLE: GIVING UP ON AN ARTICLE

    It’s not at all usual for me to abandon an article at the writing stage, but today I’m giving myself permission. I’m sharing this misadventure in case you’ve also fallen down a rabbit hole and can’t climb out. Forgive me in advance for the long tale, I’m sort of exorcising this unfinished article from my…

  • CAÍDA EN Y SALIDA DEL POZO SIN FONDO: HOY ABANDONO UN ARTÍCULO

    No es nada habitual que abandone un artículo ya en la fase de redacción, pero hoy me doy permiso. Comparto esta desventura con mis lectores por si alguno ha caído en un pozo sin fondo similar y no puede salir. Perdonadme de antemano por la larga historia, estoy exorcizando ese artículo inacabado de mi lista…

  • COUNTING THE HOURS: SUPERVISING A PHD DISSERTATION

    So that you know, according to the current regulations of my university, and following Catalan legislation, a full-time teacher (24 ECTS) is supposed to devote 640 yearly hours to teaching, out of the 1640 we’re supposed to work annually. Actually, if I multiply the 215 working days of the current academic year 2025-26 by 7,5…

  • CONTANDO LAS HORAS: EL COSTE DE SUPERVISAR UNA TESIS DOCTORAL

    Para que lo sepáis, según la normativa actual de mi universidad y según la legislación catalana, un profesor a tiempo completo (24 ECTS) debe dedicar 640 horas anuales a la docencia, de las 1640 que se supone que debemos trabajar cada año. De hecho, si multiplico los 215 días laborables del curso académico actual 2025-26…

  • A NEW BOOK: MASCULINITIES IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE-FICTION TELEVISION     

    I’ve been busy these past weeks finishing the edition of a new e-book with 96 book reviews written by my undergrad students in the subject Contemporary English Literature, whose publication I’m very proud to announce: Reviewing Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and Nonfiction, vol. II. You can check here the post I wrote last year about producing…