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)).

  • VILLANAS EN LA FICCIÓN: UN LIBRO QUE ALGUIEN DEBERÍA ESCRIBIR

    Hace muchos años, una editorial me ofreció la oportunidad de publicar un libro sobre la figura de la mujer fatal, dirigido a un público general. No puedo recomendar lo suficiente los dos libros de Bram Dijkstra Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (1986) y Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality…

  • TWO PROJECTS WITH STUDENTS: MINISERIES AND REVIEWS

    I have published this week not one but TWO books gathering works written by my students. As I have been narrating here, I started publishing students’ work back in 2013-14, when I edited two volumes on Harry Potter. I became then hooked on project-oriented teaching for BA and MA subjects, mostly electives, and these new…

  • DOS PROYECTOS CON ESTUDIANTES: MINISERIES Y RESEÑAS

    Esta semana he publicado no uno, sino DOS libros que recopilan trabajos escritos por mis alumnos. Como he estado narrando aquí, comencé a publicar los trabajos de los estudiantes en 2013-14, cuando edité dos volúmenes sobre Harry Potter. Entonces me enganché a la enseñanza orientada a proyectos para las asignaturas de Grado y Máster, en…

  • SEX ON THE SCREEN: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

    Even though I write plenty about gender, I don’t write about sex because, being a Victorian at heart, I believe this is a very private matter. I don’t mean that sex should not be discussed (of course it should!), but that it is difficult to participate in the discussion because there is only a certain…

  • SEXO EN LA PANTALLA: ¿YA VALE?

    Aunque escribo mucho sobre género, no escribo sobre sexo porque, siendo victoriana de corazón, creo que es un asunto privado. No quiero decir que no se deba hablar de sexo (¡por supuesto que hay que hablar!), sino que es difícil participar en el debate porque sólo se puede mantener la conversación teórica hasta cierto nivel.…