It turns out I have published 30 reviews, all of them of academic books, and I have two more about to be issued, which amounts more or less to one per year on average in the 33 years I have been an academic. For me, the most memorable for me is, no doubt, my […]
One of my colleagues has just retired and among the many books of his extensive library that he has given away (for that’s what happens with the books we store in our offices) I have rescued John Carey’s What Good Are the Arts? (Faber & Faber, 2005). I have very fond memories of reading Carey’s […]
I have just marked 70 paper proposals that my second-year Victorian Literature students have submitted and since the feedback I need to offer might be useful beyond my class, I’m offering it here as a sort of open tutorial. In our English Studies BA we start using secondary sources in the first year, but […]
I’ll begin today by citing the post “Types of Open Access Publishing and the Benefits of Each” by Denise Mager from the blog Researcher.Life (16 August 2022), where I have found information on, precisely, the different types of open access publishing. Ready? (I’m shortening a bit the text): Are you puzzled? Me too… Let’s […]
Last week I wrote about the sheer amount of bibliography we are using in academic work. I neglected, however, to mention that in textual analysis primary sources are occupying less and less space. In the presentation of my volume La verdad sin fin: Expediente X back in September, Iván Gómez praised me for having the […]
In the most recent peer reviewing I have passed one of the reviewers complained that I quote too much and should paraphrase more. The article is 8880 words long and has 30 secondary sources, so on average 1 source for about 300 words, apart from the quotations from the primary source (I quoted from it […]
Today I’m writing a sort of metablogging post, for two reasons: I wish to comment on my most recent book, Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of Teaching Literature, which contains a selection of posts published here, and I have just been invited to write an article on the experience of writing this blog for […]
On Saturday 7 I participated in the second presentation of my new book La verdad sin fin: Expediente X, a volume about which I have already written here, at the Festival de Cinema de Catalunya at Sitges. I had offered the first presentation, which you can see online, a couple of weeks ago at Llibreria […]
These days I have been proofreading my forthcoming book Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of English Literature (Universidad de Jaén), which gathers together an essay and a selection of posts from this blog up to 2020. I worry that the volume is already outdated because of its many references to plagiarism, and the absence […]
My second-year students need to write a paper on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, in which they must cite a minimum of three secondary sources. I give them a list of 23 topics from which they can choose, with the only restriction that only a maximum of 3 students can choose the same topic. In this […]