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)).

  • MEROPE GAUNT, VOLDEMORT’S MOTHER: NARRATIVE AS A HOUSE OF CARDS

    The first novel about Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997, already 25 years ago today. This post looks back to that date, to celebrate it, and forward to next November, when Barcelona’s Witch Market will finally return and all of us, local…

  • DEPRESIÓN Y ANSIEDAD: LAS PRINCIPALES PALABRAS CLAVE EN LA UNIVERSIDAD

    En una reciente reunión de Departamento surgió el problema apremiante de la baja asistencia de los estudiantes este último semestre. No he dado clase en este tiempo pero mis compañeros me dicen que menos del 50% de los alumnos han asistido a sus clases, porcentaje incluso inferior a lo que vi en el primer semestre,…

  • DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY: THE MAIN ACADEMIC KEYWORDS TODAY

    In a recent teachers’ meeting the pressing issue of students’ low attendance this last semester came up. I have not been teaching but my colleagues tell me less than 50% of the students have attended classes, which is even lower than what I saw in the first semester, when we were all still wearing facemasks…

  • UN GÉNERO FANTASMA: EL EXTRAÑO CASO DEL TECNOTHRILLER

    El que debería escribir esta entrada hoy es mi estudiante de doctorado Pascal Lemaire ya que ha elegido tratar el tecnothriller como su tema de investigación. Sin embargo, yo misma tengo curiosidad por algunos de las cuestiones que está planteando sobre este género, así que aquí estoy. Allá por 2014 Pascal publicó en Hélice un…

  • A PHANTOM GENRE: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE TECHNOTHRILLER

    The one who should be writing this post today is my PhD student Pascal Lemaire since he has chosen to deal with the technothriller as his topic of research. However, I am myself curious about some of the points he is raising about this genre, so here I am. Back in 2014 Pascal published in…