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)).

  •  TRAINS AND OMNIBUSES: ON THE MEANS OF TRANSPORT IN FICTION

    As readers and spectators, we tend to think of the means of transport as background elements of moderate importance. Yet, the moment I do some digging, what emerges is a rather complex picture of their relevance in the stories we tell and consume.             I am thinking of this matter today because of two lectures.…

  • TRENES Y OMNIBUSES: SOBRE LOS MEDIOS DE TRANSPORTE EN LA FICCIÓN

    Como lectores y espectadores, tendemos a pensar en los medios de transporte como elementos de trasfondo de mediana importancia. Sin embargo, en cuanto he investigado un poco, en seguida ha surgido una imagen compleja de su relevancia en las historias que contamos y consumimos.             Pienso hoy en este asunto a causa de dos conferencias.…

  •  PRODUCTION DESIGN AND FILM ADAPTATION: ON THE HAUNTING (1963, 1999)

    I reported in a post written four weeks ago that Shirley Jackson had taken her inspiration for the mansion in The Haunting of Hill House (1959) from the Crocker House of San Francisco, designed by her great-grandfather Samuel Charles Bugbee. Today I am returning to Jackson’s novel to discuss the role of production design as…

  • DISEÑO DE PRODUCCIÓN Y ADAPTACIÓN CINEMATOGRÁFICA: SOBRE THE HAUNTING (1963, 1999)

    Conté en una entrada escrita hace cuatro semanas que Shirley Jackson se había inspirado para la mansión de The Haunting of Hill House (La maldición de Hill House, 1959) en la Casa Crocker de San Francisco, diseñada por su bisabuelo Samuel Charles Bugbee. Hoy vuelvo a la novela de Jackson para hablar del papel del…

  •  PRESENTING A BOOK (AND WHY ACADEMIC BOOKS ARE NOT PRESENTED, I WONDER….)

    On Saturday 7 I participated in the second presentation of my new book La verdad sin fin: Expediente X, a volume about which I have already written here, at the Festival de Cinema de Catalunya at Sitges. I had offered the first presentation, which you can see online, a couple of weeks ago at Llibreria…