
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)).
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THE LOST SOUL OF THE TEXT (ON HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)
Sorry about the eleven-day gap without publishing here. I’ve been working full-time for the last two weeks on a book which gathers together selected posts from this blog, in Spanish, covering the last five years since the onset of Covid-19. The book was intended for a prestige Spanish academic publisher, but they told me they…
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EL ALMA PERDIDA DEL TEXTO (EN TORNO A ¡QUÉ VERDE ERA MI VALLE!)
Perdón por el intervalo de once días sin publicar. He estado trabajando a tiempo completo durante las últimas dos semanas en un libro en castellano que reúne una selección de entradas de este blog, de los últimos cinco años, desde el inicio de la Covid-19. El libro estaba destinado a una prestigiosa editorial académica española,…
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FIVE YEARS AGO: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EDUCATION
Five years ago today, on 13 March 2025, Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez declared the state of emergency, in view of the alarming expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causing Covid-19. Today, many other persons and media are considering the impact of the pandemic on our lives and, in particular, on education. I don’t have anything to…
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HACE CINCO AÑOS: EL IMPACTO DE LA COVID-19 EN LA EDUCACIÓN
Hoy, 13 de marzo, hace cinco años que el presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, declaró el estado de alarma, ante la inquietante expansión del coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causante de la Covid-19. Hoy en día, muchas otras personas y medios de comunicación están considerando el impacto de la pandemia en nuestras vidas y, en particular, en…