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)).

  • El villano patriarcal posthumano como amenaza futura absoluta: Winston Duarte (y el héroe James Holden) en la serie de novelas The Expanse

    AVISO DE SPOILERS: esta entrada analiza las nueve novelas de la serie Expanse, incluyendo el final. The Expanse es una serie de nueve novelas del sub-género ópera espacial ya traducidas: Leviathan Wakes [El despertar del Leviatán] (2011), Caliban’s War [La guerra de Calibán] (2012), Abaddon’s Gate [La puerta de Abadón] (2013), Cibola Burn [La quema…

  • Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men

    The title of today’s post is that of the volume I have edited together with my dear friend Isabel Santaulària, Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men. Published a couple of weeks ago, the volume has been in the making for almost three years from conception to publication, a long…

  • Cómo desintoxicar la masculinidad: en busca de hombres buenos

    El título de la entrada de hoy es en parte el del del volumen que he editado junto con mi querida amiga M. Isabel Santaulària, Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men. Publicado hace un par de semanas, el volumen ha estado en preparación durante casi tres años desde su…

  • TURNING ANXIETY INTO PRODUCTIVE ANGER: A UTOPIAN PROJECT

    Nine months ago I published the post “Depression and Anxiety: The Main Academic Keywords Today” and I return today to the topic out of a need to process a situation that is beginning to make me quite angry.             I am going through a personal complicated period, with immediate material causes that are slowly sorting…

  • CONVERTIR LA ANSIEDAD EN IRA PRODUCTIVA: UN PROYECTO UTÓPICO

    Hace nueve meses publiqué el post “Depresión y ansiedad: las principales palabras clave en la universidad» y hoy vuelvo al tema por la necesidad de procesar una situación que empieza a enfadarme bastante.             Estoy pasando por un período personal complicado, con causas materiales inmediatas que se están resolviendo lentamente (no problemas mentales per se),…