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)).

  • LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: WRITING INSIDE SOMEONE ELSE’S BORDERS

    NOTE: This post was originally written on 20 December 2021, but it’s published now, months later because of the cyberattack that UAB suffered then and that caused the temporary suspension of this blog I’m borrowing for this post the famous phrase “location, location, location”, coined by Harold Samuel to describe the three things that matter…

  • EL MEJOR LIBRO SOBRE LOS PERSONAJES SECUNDARIOS: THE ONE VS. THE MANY DE ALEX WOLOCH

    NOTA: Redacté esta entrada el 13 de diciembre de 2021, pero la publico ahora a causa del ciberataque que la UAB sufrió entonces y que causó la suspensión temporal del blog Por lo que yo sé, The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (2003) de Alex…

  • THE BEST BOOK ON SECONDARY CHARACTERS: ALEX WOLOCH’S THE ONE VS. THE MANY

    NOTE: This post was originally written on 13 Decemeber 2021, but it’s published now, months later because of the cyberattack that UAB suffered then and that caused the temporary suspension of this blog As far as I know, Alex Woloch’s The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the…

  • ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS CANTANTES: ENTRE EL POP Y EL ROCK

    NOTA: Redacté esta entrada el 6 de diciembre de 2021, pero la publico ahora a causa del ciberataque que la UAB sufrió entonces y que causó la suspensión temporal del blog Este semestre estoy impartiendo, como vengo narrando, un curso de Estudios Culturales basado en el análisis de una selección de 60 canciones grabadas por…

  • MUSINGS ON WOMEN’S SINGERS: BETWEEN POP AND ROCK

    NOTE: This post was originally written on 6 December 2021, but it’s published now, months later because of the cyberattack that UAB suffered then and that caused the temporary suspension of this blog This semester I am teaching, as I have been narrating, a course on Cultural Studies based on analysing a selection of 60…