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)).

  • AN ACCIDENTAL TRILOGY ON (PRE-AI) TECH CAPITALISM: NOVEL, MEMOIRS, ESSAY

    Tech capitalism has inspired a flood of publications which shows no signs of abating. I can’t call myself an expert on the matter, which I mainly follow as a much-concerned lay person through the news and social media, but I have recently read two books (a memoir, an essay) that form a sort of accidental…

  • UNA TRILOGÍA ACCIDENTAL SOBRE EL CAPITALISMO TECNOLÓGICO (PRE-IA): NOVELA, MEMORIAS, ENSAYO

    El capitalismo tecnológico ha inspirado una avalancha de publicaciones que no muestra señales de disminuir. No puedo considerarme un experta en el tema, que sigo como profana muy preocupada a través de las noticias y las redes sociales, pero recientemente he leído dos libros (unas memorias, un ensayo) que forman una especie de trilogía accidental…

  • ON THE APPRECIATION OF FOREIGN CULTURES (AND WHY TAKE A DEGREE IN ENGLISH STUDIES)

    I based my last lecture for my elective subject on audiovisual adaptations and production design on Sarah Cardwell’s volume Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel (Manchester UP, 2002). In what must have been originally her PhD dissertation, Cardwell vindicates the specific aesthetics of television and focuses on four case studies: Brideshead Revisited (1981), Pride…

  • SOBRE LA APRECIACIÓN DE LAS CULTURAS EXTRANJERAS (Y POR QUÉ CURSAR UN GRADO EN ESTUDIOS INGLESES)

    Basé mi última clase para mi optativa sobre adaptaciones audiovisuales y diseño de producción en el volumen de Sarah Cardwell Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel (Manchester UP, 2002). En lo que debió ser originalmente su tesis doctoral, Cardwell reivindica la estética específica de la televisión y se centra en cuatro estudios de caso:…

  • THE TURN TOWARDS MODERN FATHERHOOD: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LATE 1960S (IN THE USA)

    I’m reading bibliography for my book on sons’ memoirs about fathers, which is now beginning to pass its first preliminary stage, though I still have no title, contract, or a delivery date. My current target is checking whether my intuitions can be transformed into a solid working hypothesis and a sound thesis. I believe that…