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)).

  • GOODBYE VICTORIANS, SEE YOU LATER!!

    Memory is a funny thing. I have been digging into my CV to prepare this post and what I have found does not quite match my recollections. I was under the impression that I have been teaching Victorian Literature every year since I was hired in 1991, except the year that I spent in Scotland…

  • ¡¡ADIÓS VICTORIANOS, HASTA LUEGO!!

    La memoria es una cosa curiosa. He estado indagando en mi CV para preparar esta entrada y lo que he encontrado no acaba de coincidir con mis recuerdos. Tenía la impresión de que he estado enseñando Literatura Victoriana todos los años desde que me contrataron en 1991, excepto el año que pasé en Escocia (¡hace…

  • PRESENTING A NEW BOOK WITH STUDENTS: BEAUTIFUL VESSELS: CHILDREN AND GENDER IN ANGLOPHONE CINEMA

    I published four months ago a post about my new MA subject on children in Anglophone cinema, which I have taught this semester under the umbrella label Gender Studies. This is somehow a continuation of a subject I taught three years ago, which resulted in the publication of the e-book by the students Gender in…

  • PRESENTACIÓN DE UN NUEVO LIBRO CON ESTUDIANTES: BEAUTIFUL VESSELS: CHILDREN AND GENDER IN ANGLOPHONE CINEMA

    Hace cuatro meses publiqué un post sobre mi nueva asignatura de máster en torno a los niños en el cine anglófono, que he impartido este semestre bajo el paraguas del nombre oficial Estudios de Género. Se trata, de alguna manera, de una continuación de una asignatura que impartí hace tres años, y que resultó en…

  •  A DEPARTMENT OUTING AND A BIT OF HISTORY: TO PARADISE

    When the new Head of Department was appointed back in February 2023, we also appointed informally a ‘party planning committee’, constituted by two of my colleagues and myself. Perhaps you are part of that kind of Department in which people meet regularly for coffee breaks and lunch, and after hours for drinks, meals, or partying,…