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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LA MALA BRUJA: BELLATRIX BLACK LESTRANGE
Continuando con el tema de mi post anterior, y porque he estado preparando una charla sobre ella, me gustaría centrarme aquí en una bruja verdaderamente mala: Bellatrix Black Lestrange. Bellatrix ha sido objeto de algunos trabajos académicos, ninguno dedicado solo a ella (todos visibles en Google Scholar; la base de datos MLA no lleva nada…
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OF FAIRIES AND WITCHES: AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY
My doctoral student Laura Luque is now giving the finishing touches to her excellent PhD dissertation on the positive representation of the witch as a figure of empowerment in contemporary YA fantasy literature. She has focused on Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Rin Chupeco and Kelley Armstrong, which is certainly enough, although as the lists in…
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DE HADAS Y BRUJAS: ACCIDENTES DE LA HISTORIA
Mi estudiante de doctorado Laura Luque ahora está dando los toques finales a su excelente tesis doctoral sobre la representación positiva de la bruja como figura de empoderamiento en la literatura fantástica contemporánea juvenil. Se ha centrado en Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, Rin Chupeco y Kelley Armstrong, que es más que suficiente, aunque como muestran…