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)).

  • THE GRADUAL EROSION OF LITERACY: OF PODCASTS, AUDIOBOOKS, VIDEOS AND CHATBOT GPT

    You may have noticed that newspapers have started carrying audio versions of a selection of articles, perhaps in some cases of all their articles. I first noticed this in La Vanguardia, which offers the audio version only to its subscribers, considering it a premium service. Obviously, the audio versions are not uploaded for the benefit…

  • LA EROSIÓN GRADUAL DE LA ALFABETIZACIÓN: PODCASTS, AUDIOLIBROS, VIDEOS Y EL CHATBOT GPT

    Es posible que hayáis notado que los periódicos han comenzado a publicar versiones de audio de una selección de artículos, tal vez en algunos casos de todos sus artículos. Lo observé por primera vez en La Vanguardia, que ofrece la versión de audio solo a sus suscriptores, considerándola un servicio premium. Claramente, el audio no…

  • NOT RADICAL ENOUGH: PRINCE HARRY’S SPARE

    Prince Harry’s memoirs Spare were published only six days ago but it is already difficult to have something new to say about them, given the flood of opinion articles and blog posts that has greeted them. I’ll try, though.             I’ll begin by noting that I remain flabbergasted by two things: that this man still…

  • UNAS MEMORIAS NO LO BASTANTE RADICALES: SPARE (EN LA SOMBRA) DEL PRÍNCIPE HARRY

    Las memorias del príncipe Harry, Spare (En la sombra) se publicaron hace solo seis días, pero ya es difícil tener algo nuevo que decir sobre ellas, dada la avalancha de artículos de opinión y publicaciones en blogs que las han recibido. Lo intentaré.             Comenzaré señalando que sigo atónita por dos cosas: que este hombre…

  • AGEING MEN IN ACTION CINEMA: A DYING BREED WITH NO REPLACEMENT

    My post today is inspired by Daniel Soufi’s article for El País “Salvar el mundo por no jubilarse: los héroes de más de 60 años llenan las pantallas de cine” [Saving the World to Avoid Retirement: Over-60 Heroes Fill the Cinema Screens]. Soufi wonders why ageing male actors are still playing action heroes and names…