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 for free 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)).

  • SETTING UP A BOOK CLUB: WILL IT WORK?

    Happy new academic year! May it brings plenty of positive energy for teachers and students, and dispels all the dark clouds of anxiety and depression that plagued so many people last year. My first post of this new year deals with my Department’s book club. We have been running a club for a few years…

  • MONTANDO UN CLUB DE LECTURA: ¿FUNCIONARÁ?

    ¡Feliz año nuevo académico! Ojalá traiga mucha energía positiva a docentes y estudiantes, y disipe todas las nubes oscuras de ansiedad y depresión que atraparon a tantas personas el año pasado. Mi primer post de este nuevo año trata sobre el club de lectura de mi Departamento. Llevamos años ofreciendo un club, con cierta tozudez,…

  • BETWEEN FICTION AND NON-FICTION: TOM CLANCY’S THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

    My student Pascal Lemaire is working on a PhD dissertation on the genre of the technothriller and I have asked him for a list of recommended novels, since I am far more familiar with the movies. Technothrillers, as Pascal is discovering, are a conundrum as a genre because although they have millions of readers worldwide,…

  •  ENTRE LA FICCIÓN Y LA NO-FICCIÓN: LA CAZA DEL OCTUBRE ROJO DE TOM CLANCY

    Mi doctorando Pascal Lemaire está trabajando en una tesis doctoral sobre el género del tecnothriller y le he pedido una lista de novelas recomendadas, ya que estoy mucho más familiarizada con las películas. Los tecnothrillers, como Pascal está descubriendo, son un enigma como género porque aunque tienen millones de lectores en todo el mundo, no…

  • THAT BAD WITCH: BELLATRIX BLACK LESTRANGE

    Continuing with the topic of my previous post, and because I have been preparing a talk about her, I’d like to focus here on a truly bad witch: Bellatrix Black Lestrange. Bellatrix has been the object of a few scholarly publications, none devoted to her alone (all to be found on Google Scholar; the MLA…