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)).

  • HOW MUCH BIBLIOGRAPHY IS TOO MUCH?: ON ACADEMIC WRITING TODAY

    In the most recent peer reviewing I have passed one of the reviewers complained that I quote too much and should paraphrase more. The article is 8880 words long and has 30 secondary sources, so on average 1 source for about 300 words, apart from the quotations from the primary source (I quoted from it…

  • ¿CUÁNTA BIBLIOGRAFÍA ES DEMASIADA BIBLIOGRAFÍA?: LA ESCRITURA ACADÉMICA EN LA ACTUALIDAD

    En el proceso de revisión por pares más reciente que he pasado, uno de los revisores se quejó de que cito demasiado, mientras que debería parafrasear más. El artículo tiene 8880 palabras y 30 fuentes secundarias, por lo que en promedio cuenta con una fuente cada 300 palabras, aparte de las citas de la fuente…

  • CONSIDERING THIS BLOG: PASSIONATE PROFESSING – THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING LITERATURE

    Today I’m writing a sort of metablogging post, for two reasons: I wish to comment on my most recent book, Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of Teaching Literature, which contains a selection of posts published here, and I have just been invited to write an article on the experience of writing this blog for…

  • SOBRE ESTE MISMO BLOG: PASSIONATE PROFESSING: THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING LITERATURE

    Hoy estoy escribiendo una especie de entrada de metablogging, por dos razones: quiero comentar mi libro más reciente, Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of Teaching Literature, que contiene una selección de entradas publicadas aquí, y me acaban de invitar a escribir un artículo sobre la experiencia de escribir este blog para Nexus, revista de…

  • DOING AWAY WITH THE CLASS PARTICIPATION MARK: A DEFEAT

    This week we have held in my Department the 10th TELLC (Teaching English Language, Literature and Culture) workshop. This yearly meeting, which I set up after my time as BA Coordinator and still run, is aimed at discussing our experiences as teachers in all the areas and degrees of the Department. The presentations are supposed…