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 from https://ddd.uab.cat/record/116328, 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)).

  • ON MY NEW SUBJECT CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: AN EXPERIMENT

    When we started working on the new 2021 syllabus, my Literature colleagues and I came to the conclusion that our students have too little contact with the contemporary world. Our undergrads take in the first year an Introduction to English Literature, which basically covers the British and Irish 20th century, beginning with James Joyce’s “The…

  • SOBRE MI NUEVA ASIGNATURA LITERATURA CONTEMPORÁNEA EN INGLÉS: UN EXPERIMENTO

    Cuando comenzamos a trabajar en el nuevo plan de estudios de 2021, mis colegas de Literatura Inglesa y yo llegamos a la conclusión de que nuestros estudiantes tienen muy poco contacto con el mundo contemporáneo. Nuestros alumnos toman en el primer año una Introducción a la literatura inglesa, que cubre básicamente el siglo XX británico…

  • GOODBYE VICTORIANS, SEE YOU LATER!!

    Memory is a funny thing. I have been digging into my CV to prepare this post and what I have found does not quite match my recollections. I was under the impression that I have been teaching Victorian Literature every year since I was hired in 1991, except the year that I spent in Scotland…

  • ¡¡ADIÓS VICTORIANOS, HASTA LUEGO!!

    La memoria es una cosa curiosa. He estado indagando en mi CV para preparar esta entrada y lo que he encontrado no acaba de coincidir con mis recuerdos. Tenía la impresión de que he estado enseñando Literatura Victoriana todos los años desde que me contrataron en 1991, excepto el año que pasé en Escocia (¡hace…

  • PRESENTING A NEW BOOK WITH STUDENTS: BEAUTIFUL VESSELS: CHILDREN AND GENDER IN ANGLOPHONE CINEMA

    I published four months ago a post about my new MA subject on children in Anglophone cinema, which I have taught this semester under the umbrella label Gender Studies. This is somehow a continuation of a subject I taught three years ago, which resulted in the publication of the e-book by the students Gender in…