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)).
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TEACHING AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS: SOME CONCLUSIONS
I’m three classes away from finishing (on 28 May) my third/fourth year BA elective subject ‘English Prose: 21st Century Autobiographies and Memoirs’ and I’ve been drafting my conclusions. I have decided to share them here, together with a couple of lists. Each class (80-90 minutes) has consisted of the following: a mini-lecture (35 minutes)…
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TRAS ENSEÑAR AUTOBIOGRAFÍAS Y MEMORIAS: ALGUNAS CONCLUSIONES
Me quedan tres clases para terminar (el 28 de mayo) la optativa de tercero/cuarto año del Grado de Estudios Ingleses ‘Prosa inglesa: autobiografías y memorias del siglo XXI’ y como he estado redactando mis conclusiones, he decidido compartirlas aquí, junto con un par de listas. Cada clase (80-90 minutos) ha consistido en lo siguiente:…
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A NEW BOOK: ON MOTHERS AND MOTHERING IN SPECULATIVE FICTION
The new book I present today, Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mothers Out of this World, is a collective volume that I have co-edited with Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, of the University of Zaragoza. This is the end of a long collaboration, initiated by Jessica herself, which has lasted about two years, perhaps…
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UN NUEVO LIBRO: MADRES Y MATERNIDAD EN LA FICCIÓN ESPECULATIVA
El nuevo libro que presento hoy, Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mothers Out of this World, es un volumen colectivo que he coeditado con Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Se trata de la culminación de una larga colaboración, iniciada por la propia Jessica, que ha durado unos dos años,…
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A CHANCE TO IMPROVE?: A REPORT ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF LEARNING ENGLISH (IN CATALONIA)
Today, my post deals with a new report coordinated by a very much admired Departament colleague, Elisabet Pladevall Ballester. The report is called Per què ens costa tant l’anglès?: Propostes per millorar l’aprenentatge de l’anglès a l’escola [Why is English so difficult for us?: Proposals to improve English learning at school] and has been commissioned…