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)).

  • Juzgar un libro por su portada

    Esta entrada post está inspirada por en el artículo “Seventy-five years of richly illustrated literary classics – in pictures”, que celebra el trabajo de The Folio Society. Se trata de una editorial independiente británica, establecida en 1947, que hasta ahora ha publicado 2400 ediciones bellamente diseñadas pensando en los amantes de los libros, una categoría…

  • SEX WORK IN JAMES S.A. COREY’S ‘THE EXPANSE’: A SAMPLE OF THE 24TH CENTURY (OR NOT)

    The Expanse (2011-2021) is a nine-volume space opera series by James S.A. Corey (the joint penname of the duo Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), or a ten-volume series if you take into account the book gathering the associated short fiction. The novels have been adapted as a TV series, first by SyFy and later by…

  • EL TRABAJO SEXUAL EN ‘THE EXPANSE’ DE JAMES S.A. COREY:  UNA MUESTRA DE LO QUE SERÁ EL S. XXIV (O NO)

    The Expanse (La expansión, o La extensión, 2011-2021) es una serie de ópera espacial de nueve volúmenes de James S.A. Corey (el seudónimo conjunto del dúo Daniel Abraham y Ty Franck), o una serie de diez volúmenes si se tiene en cuenta el libro que reúne la ficción corta asociada. Las novelas han sido adaptadas…

  • WHY THE VILLAIN CANNOT BE ROMANTIC: ‘THE RINGS OF POWER’ AND THAT SCENE ON THE RAFT

    [WARNING: THIS POST DISCUSSES EPISODE 8, “ALLOYED”, OF AMAZON’S SERIES THE RINGS OF POWER] I’ve been watching with a mixture of boredom and annoyance Amazon’s The Rings of Power, telling myself there was no point in writing about it to vent my indignation as a Tolkien reader (though not a big fan). I agree with…

  • POR QUÉ EL VILLANO NO PUEDE SER ROMÁNTICO: ‘LOS ANILLOS DE PODER’ Y ESA ESCENA EN LA BALSA

    [ADVERTENCIA: ESTA ENTRADA ANALIZA EL EPISODIO 8, “ALLOYED”, DE LA SERIE DE AMAZON THE RINGS OF POWER/LOS ANILLOS DE PODER] He estado viendo con una mezcla de aburrimiento e irritación The Rings of Power de Amazon, diciéndome a mí misma que no valía la pena mostrar mi indignación como lectora de Tolkien (aunque no fan…