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)).

  •  THE STUPIDEST WAR CONTINUES (AND CULTURE FAILS)

    I don’t know if I’m suffering from writers’ block but it’s the first time since I started this blog back in 2010 that I feel I might be exhausting my topics. I’ve been trying to write something for the last four days, and I have finally decided to clear my schedule and force myself to…

  • LA GUERRA MÁS ESTÚPIDA CONTINÚA (Y LA CULTURA NOS FALLA)

    No sé si sufro de bloqueo, pero es la primera vez desde que empecé este blog en 2010 que siento que quizás estoy agotando mis temas. Llevo cuatro días intentando escribir algo y al final he decidido despejar mi agenda y obligarme a escribir. Allá vamos.           Este bloqueo no es algo personal, no estoy…

  • THE STUPIDEST WAR (NO NEED FOR A SUBTITLE)

    So, here we are in what might be seen retrospectively by historians as the beginning of World War III. All wars are stupid, but this one has been started out of such rampant stupidity that it’s really hard to believe. Neither the governments that clashed in WWI, nor Hitler, who provoked World War II, were…

  • LA GUERRA MÁS ESTÚPIDA (NO HACE FALTA UN SUBTÍTULO)

    Así que aquí estamos, en lo que los historiadores podrían considerar, retrospectivamente, como el inicio de la Tercera Guerra Mundial. Todas las guerras son estúpidas, pero esta ha empezado por una estupidez tan desenfrenada que cuesta creerlo. Ni los gobiernos que chocaron en la Primera Guerra Mundial, ni Hitler, que provocó la Segunda Guerra Mundial,…

  • READING MEN’S MEMOIRS ABOUT FATHERS: THERAPY AND VALUE

    I was going to start writing my projected book on secondary characters, but then I realized that since it is not exclusively focused on English-language literature but on a selection of European novels in different languages, I might have problems presenting it in my next research assessment exercise (the board might value negatively my straying…