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)).

  • DOING FILM STUDIES WITHIN ENGLISH STUDIES: YES, WE SHOULD

    A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of helping to consolidate the academic career of a brilliant young scholar, Pablo Gómez Muñoz, whose excellent volume Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns (Routledge, 2023), I earnestly recommend. Pablo, who has been working for some years now at the Universidad…

  • EN DEFENSA DE LOS ESTUDIOS DE CINE DENTRO DE LOS ESTUDIOS INGLESES

    Hace unas semanas, tuve el gran placer de ayudar a consolidar la carrera académica de un joven y brillante académico, Pablo Gómez Muñoz, cuyo excelente volumen Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns (Routledge, 2023), recomiendo encarecidamente. Pablo, que trabaja desde hace unos años en la Universidad de Zaragoza, recibió un…

  • ON LITERARY JOURNALISM, WHICH IS WHAT I WANT TO TEACH

    I’m returning again after a couple of previous posts (see here the more recent one and here the older one) to the matter of nonfiction, which occupies me because I’m planning to teach an elective subject if not next year, then the following. As I explained in my previous posts, I find the label nonfiction…

  • SOBRE EL PERIODISMO LITERARIO, QUE ES LO QUE QUIERO ENSEÑAR

    Vuelvo de nuevo después de un par de entradas anteriores (ver aquí la más reciente y aquí la más antigua) al tema de la no ficción, que me ocupa porque estoy planeando enseñar una asignatura optativa si no el año que viene, entonces el siguiente. Como expliqué en mis entradas anteriores, encuentro que la etiqueta…

  • AGEING WITH THE STARS: ON A POP CONCERT BY AN ICONIC BAND

    My post today is particularly autobiographical but not totally disconnected from my teaching and research, if only because last year I taught an MA subject on music and men, and I have published at least a couple of articles on pop and rock music. I attended yesterday, 16 March, the concert by veteran English band…