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)).
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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…
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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…
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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…
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LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN MÁS ALLÁ DEL TERRITORIO ANGLÓFONO: EL CASO CATALÁN
Este fin de semana he estado participando en la IV CatCon o convención catalana sobre ciencia ficción y fantasía, celebrada como las tres primeras en la encantadora localidad costera de Vilanova i la Geltrú, a unos 50 km. al sur de Barcelona. CatCon reúne a fans y escritores, y también es el evento durante el…
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SCIENCE FICTION BEYOND THE ANGLOPHONE TERRITORY: THE CATALAN CASE
This weekend I have been participating in the IV CatCon or Catalan convention on science fiction and fantasy, celebrated like the first three in the lovely seaside town of Vilanova i la Geltrú, about 50 kms south of Barcelona. CatCon gathers together fans and writers and is also the event during which the Ictineu prize…