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)).

  • SEX WORK IN JAMES S.A. COREY’S ‘THE EXPANSE’: A SAMPLE OF THE 24TH CENTURY (OR NOT)

    The Expanse (2011-2021) is a nine-volume space opera series by James S.A. Corey (the joint penname of the duo Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), or a ten-volume series if you take into account the book gathering the associated short fiction. The novels have been adapted as a TV series, first by SyFy and later by…

  • EL TRABAJO SEXUAL EN ‘THE EXPANSE’ DE JAMES S.A. COREY:  UNA MUESTRA DE LO QUE SERÁ EL S. XXIV (O NO)

    The Expanse (La expansión, o La extensión, 2011-2021) es una serie de ópera espacial de nueve volúmenes de James S.A. Corey (el seudónimo conjunto del dúo Daniel Abraham y Ty Franck), o una serie de diez volúmenes si se tiene en cuenta el libro que reúne la ficción corta asociada. Las novelas han sido adaptadas…

  • WHY THE VILLAIN CANNOT BE ROMANTIC: ‘THE RINGS OF POWER’ AND THAT SCENE ON THE RAFT

    [WARNING: THIS POST DISCUSSES EPISODE 8, “ALLOYED”, OF AMAZON’S SERIES THE RINGS OF POWER] I’ve been watching with a mixture of boredom and annoyance Amazon’s The Rings of Power, telling myself there was no point in writing about it to vent my indignation as a Tolkien reader (though not a big fan). I agree with…

  • POR QUÉ EL VILLANO NO PUEDE SER ROMÁNTICO: ‘LOS ANILLOS DE PODER’ Y ESA ESCENA EN LA BALSA

    [ADVERTENCIA: ESTA ENTRADA ANALIZA EL EPISODIO 8, “ALLOYED”, DE LA SERIE DE AMAZON THE RINGS OF POWER/LOS ANILLOS DE PODER] He estado viendo con una mezcla de aburrimiento e irritación The Rings of Power de Amazon, diciéndome a mí misma que no valía la pena mostrar mi indignación como lectora de Tolkien (aunque no fan…

  • WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW: THOUGHTS ON TEACHING

    I’ve been reading these days a delicious book edited by non-fiction guru Lee Gutkind, What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, and I’m borrowing his title for my post (you can take a peek at the book on Google Books). This lovely volume gathers together twenty brief memoirs by a variety of…