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)).

  • LO QUE NO SABÍA: REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA ENSEÑANZA

    He estado leyendo estos días un delicioso libro editado por el gurú de la no ficción Lee Gutkind, What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher [Lo que no sabía: relatos verdaderos sobre ser maestro] y he tomado prestado su título para mi entrada de hoy (puedes echar un vistazo al libro en…

  • STOP DYSTOPIAS: HOPEPUNK, AND A WARNING ABOUT GENERALIZED GRIMDARK

    On September 14, the Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 led by Ione Belarra, Secretary General of left-wing party Podemos, launched the campaign #BastaDeDistopías [#StopDystopias] to encourage the debate around the current general discouragement, especially among the young. The main piece is a 1-minute video in which various characters are seen in what…

  • BASTA DE DISTOPÍAS: HOPEPUNK, Y UN AVISO ANTE EL GRIMDARK GENERALIZADO

    El pasado 14 de septiembre el Ministerio de Derechos Sociales y Agenda 2030 que dirige Ione Belarra, Secretaria General de Podemos, lanzó la campaña #BastaDeDistopías para animar el debate en torno al desaliento general, sobre todo entre los jóvenes. La pieza principal es un video de 1 minuto en el que se ve a diversos…

  • Experiencing Music: Lost Habits

    Next semester I will teaching an MA subject on popular music and masculinity as a sort of sequel to the BA course I taught last year which led to the publication of the collective e-book by the students Songs of Empowerment: Women in 21st Century Popular Music (downloadable for free). I wrote a post presenting…

  • Vivir la música: los hábitos perdidos

    El próximo semestre enseñaré una asignatura de máster sobre música popular y masculinidad, una especie de secuela de la optativa de Grado que impartí el año pasado y que condujo a la publicación del libro digital escrito por los estudiantes Songs of Empowerment: Women in 21st Century Popular Music (descargable de forma gratuita). Escribí una…