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)).

  • ASSHOLES, VILLAINS, AND THE CURRENT WAR IN UKRAINE

    One of experts interviewed in the collective volume edited by psychologist Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity (2020; originally Psychologie de la Connerie, 2018; trans. Liesl Schillinger), to which I devoted my post of 4 March, was moral philosopher Aaron James. Having now read his splendid monograph Assholes: A Theory (2012), I would like to…

  • DEFENDIENDO LA AUTOEDICIÓN ACADÉMICA: EL PROBLEMA DE LOS LIBROS (Y UNO NUEVO)

    Recientemente he publicado un nuevo libro, pero no sé si realmente es un libro porque es autopublicado y, como tal, no existe para las autoridades que evalúan mi investigación, el Ministerio y ANECA. Mi nuevo libro se llama Entre muchos mundos: en torno a la ciencia ficción, y se puede descargar de forma gratuita del…

  • DEFENDING ACADEMIC SELF-PUBLISHING: THE PROBLEM OF BOOKS (AND A NEW ONE)

    I have recently published a new book, but I don’t know whether it is really a book because it is self-published and, as such, it does not exist for the authorities that assess my research, the Ministry and ANECA. My new book is called Entre muchos mundos: en torno a la ciencia ficción, and it…

  • LEER MEMORIAS: EDITAR LA VIDA

    Actualmente estoy leyendo las memorias del pianista británico James Rhodes, Instrumental (2014), que causaron un gran revuelo en el momento de su publicación por su descripción tan directa del horrible abuso sexual (y de sus consecuencias) al que fue sometido Rhodes entre las edades de 6 y 10 años. Este es el decimosexto libro de…

  • READING MEMOIRS: EDITING LIFE

    I am currently reading the memoirs by British pianist James Rhodes, Instrumental (2014), which caused quite a stir at the time of publication for his straightforward description of the horrifying sexual abuse to which he was subjected between the ages of 6 and 10 (and its aftermath). This is the sixteenth book of memoirs I…