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)).

  •  A TURNING POINT: AFTER 35 YEARS

    Happy new academic year! May it brings plenty of positive energy to teachers and students, and the thorough defeat of patriarchal darkness in all fronts and nations (yes, I’m thinking of those awful guys, who’re still sticking around like dirty flies). I’ll begin my seventeenth year as a blogger (how fast time passes!), with a…

  • UN PUNTO DE INFLEXIÓN: TRAS 35 AÑOS

    ¡Feliz nuevo año académico! Que aporte mucha energía positiva a profesores y estudiantes, y la derrota total de la oscuridad patriarcal en todos los frentes y naciones (sí, pienso en esos tipos horribles, que siguen ahí como moscas asquerosas). Comenzaré mi decimoséptimo año como bloguera (¡qué rápido pasa el tiempo!), recordando que todos los volúmenes…

  • OUR PLACE IN HISTORY: REFLEXIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY (IN SPAIN)

    In my last post I cited the doctoral dissertation by Leonardo Sánchez Ferrer, currently of the Universidad de Burgos, Políticas de reforma universitaria en España: 1983-1993 (1996). I downloaded it to take a quick look, and ended up devouring it, given its informative, reader-friendly tone. PhD dissertations are not a genre I tend to read…

  • NUESTRO LUGAR EN LA HISTORIA: REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LA UNIVERSIDAD (EN ESPAÑA)

    En mi última entrada cité la tesis doctoral Políticas de reforma universitaria en España: 1983-1993 (1996) de Leonardo Sánchez Ferrer, profesor hoy de la Universidad de Burgos. La descargué para echar un vistazo rápido y acabé devorándola, por su tono informativo y divulgativo. Las tesis doctorales no son un género que suelo leer a menos…

  • THE DEATH OF UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS: TWO VARIANTS

    The Department I work for, the English and German Department of UAB, is very confused about its own history, meaning that we don’t really know where we come from. We have not bothered so far to keep track of our main events and their chronological progression, and I don’t know whether we’re typical or atypical…