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)).

  • A CONFERENCE ON TEACHING INNOVATION: SOME NOTES

    NOTE: This post was originally written on 11 October 2021, but it’s published now, four months later because of the cyberattack that UAB suffered then and that caused the temporary suspension of this blog I do not know if you have noticed this but there seems to be here in Spain a certain proliferation of…

  • UNA MINI-HISTORIA DE LAS VOCES FEMENINAS (EN INGLÉS): EL S. XX

    Esta es, sin duda, la entrada más extraña que he publicado, pero a la espera de que mis alumnos transformen esta lista en una lista de Spotify (como me prometieron), aquí está mi selección de canciones del siglo XX (en inglés) cantadas por mujeres. Actualmente estoy impartiendo un curso de Estudios Culturales sobre las mujeres…

  • A MINI-HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SINGING (IN ENGLISH): THE 20TH CENTURY

    This is, no doubt, the strangest post I have ever published, but pending the transformation by my students of this list into a Spotify list (as they promised), here is my selection of 20th century songs by women (in English). I am currently teaching a Cultural Studies course on women in pop, and instead of…

  • CELEBRANDO UNA BUENA VIDA: IN MEMORIAM LOIS RUDNICK

    La Comisión Fulbright ha estado enviando profesores visitantes a España desde el curso 1958-59 (según su directorio, Howard Floan fue el primer visitante, en la Universidad de Zaragoza). Mi departamento recibió un flujo constante de visitantes, compartido con el Departamento de Inglés de la Universitat de Barcelona, entre mediados de la década de 1980 (hasta…

  • CELEBRATING A LIFE WELL LIVED: IN MEMORIAM LOIS RUDNICK

    The Fulbright Commission has been sending visiting scholars to Spain since the academic year 1958-59 (according to its directory, Howard Floan was the first visitor, to the University of Zaragoza). My Department received a steady flow of visitors, shared with the Department of English of the Universitat de Barcelona, between the mid-1980s (as far as…