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)).

  • CHILDREN IN CINEMA:  A NEW SUBJECT

    I started three weeks ago a new MA subject on children in Anglophone cinema, under the umbrella label Gender Studies. This is a continuation of a subject I taught three years ago, which resulted in the publication of the e-book by the students Gender in 21st Century Animated Children’s Cinema (check please my post on…

  • LOS NIÑOS EN EL CINE: UNA NUEVA ASSIGNATURA

    Hace tres semanas comencé una nueva asignatura de máster sobre los niños en el cine anglófono, bajo el paraguas de los Estudios de Género. Se trata de la continuación de una asignatura que impartí hace tres años, y que llevó a la publicación del libro digital escrito por los estudiantes Gender in 21st Century Animated…

  • THE VANISHING TEXT: HOW TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IS DYING

    Last week I wrote about the sheer amount of bibliography we are using in academic work. I neglected, however, to mention that in textual analysis primary sources are occupying less and less space. In the presentation of my volume La verdad sin fin: Expediente X back in September, Iván Gómez praised me for having the…

  • EL TEXTO QUE DESAPARECE: CÓMO ESTÁ MURIENDO EL ANÁLISIS TEXTUAL

    La semana pasada escribí sobre la gran cantidad de bibliografía que estamos utilizando en el ensayo académico. Olvidé, sin embargo, mencionar que en el análisis textual las fuentes primarias ocupan cada vez menos espacio. En la presentación de mi volumen La verdad sin fin: Expediente X en septiembre, Iván Gómez me elogió por tener la…

  • HOW MUCH BIBLIOGRAPHY IS TOO MUCH?: ON ACADEMIC WRITING TODAY

    In the most recent peer reviewing I have passed one of the reviewers complained that I quote too much and should paraphrase more. The article is 8880 words long and has 30 secondary sources, so on average 1 source for about 300 words, apart from the quotations from the primary source (I quoted from it…