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)).

  • HOW TO READ 100 BOOKS A YEAR (AND WHY IT ELICITS REJECTION)

    The article by Héctor García Barnés published in El Confidencial, “There are people in Spain who read 80, 150 or 300 books a year, and it is not as difficult as it sounds”, draws powerful attention both for the cases it presents of constant readers and for the rather negative comments they receive. According to…

  • HOMENAJE A LAS MINISERIES

    Ya es de noche, después de la cena, y toca relajarse: es la hora de elegir una película en cualquiera de las plataformas a la que una está suscrita. Esto significa emplear aproximadamente dos horas en absorber una historia, dejando de lado los quince minutos (o más) que puede llevar seleccionar una película mínimamente atractiva,…

  • AN HOMAGE TO MINISERIES

    It’s evening, after dinner, time to relax and choose a film to watch from whatever platform you subscribe. This means employing about two hours on consuming a story, leaving aside the fifteen minutes (or more) it may take to select a minimally enticing movie, unless you have preselected and placed some on your list. If…

  • VIVIR CON MIEDO: ESCLAVOS DEL TERRORISMO PATRIARCAL, DE SALMAN RUSHDIE A AFGANISTÁN

    Al final de Blade Runner (1982) de Ridley Scott, el replicante Roy Batty muestra su humanidad poco antes de morir al recordar todo lo que ha vivido y concluir que, con su muerte, “todos esos momentos se perderán en el tiempo, como lágrimas en la lluvia”, una frase conmovedora que el actor Rutger Hauer aportó…

  • LIVING IN FEAR: SLAVES TO (PATRIARCHAL) TERRORISM, FROM SALMAN RUSHDIE TO AFGHANISTAN

    At the end of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) replicant Roy Batty shows his humanity shortly before dying by recalling all he has lived and concluding that, with his death, “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain”, a moving line which actor Rutger Hauer contributed to the film, ignoring the…