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)).

  • THE DNF BOOKS: PILING UP

    I have been keeping a list of all the books I read since I was 14, in part as a way to check that I am reading every year as much as I think I should. I learned from an article I found last Summer in El País that I am a ‘super-reader’, that is…

  • LOS LIBROS NHA (‘NO LO ACABÉ’): APILÁNDOSE

    He estado manteniendo una lista de todos los libros que leo desde que tenía 14 años, en parte como una forma de verificar que estoy leyendo todos los años tanto como creo que debería. Aprendí por un artículo que encontré el verano pasado en El País que soy una ‘superlectora’, es decir, una lectora que…

  • THE UNIVERSITY AND THE JOB MARKET: CONFLICTING REALITIES

    I take my inspiration for this post from an article by Belén de Marcos for 20 Minutos, of 31st December: “La crisis ‘postcarrera,’ una realidad que sufren muchos jóvenes” (“The ‘post-degree’ crisis, a reality many young persons suffer”). The article has a curious subtitle, a quote from one of the persons interviewed: “Te hacen creer…

  • LA UNIVERSIDAD Y EL MERCADO LABORAL: REALIDADES CONTRADICTORIAS

    Me inspira esta entrada un artículo de Belén de Marcos para 20 Minutos, del 31 de diciembre: “La crisis ‘postcarrera’, una realidad que sufren muchos jóvenes”. El artículo tiene un curioso subtítulo, una cita de una de las personas entrevistadas: “Te hacen creer que te comerás el mundo y el mundo te come a ti”.…

  • THE DISPENSABLE CLASSROOM?: ON STUDENTS’ ABSENTEEISM

    The conversation around students’ manifest absence from the classroom has been making louder noises this month, when diverse reports have been issued. In The Times Higher Education, Paul Basken announced on December 6 that “Class attendance in US universities [is] ‘at record low’” due to “online hype, mental stress, adjunct reliance and job-centric mindsets.” Academics,…