I have been keeping a list of all the books I read since I was 14, in part as a way to check that I am reading every year as much as I think I should. I learned from an article I found last Summer in El País that I am a ‘super-reader’, that is […]
He estado manteniendo una lista de todos los libros que leo desde que tenía 14 años, en parte como una forma de verificar que estoy leyendo todos los años tanto como creo que debería. Aprendí por un artículo que encontré el verano pasado en El País que soy una ‘superlectora’, es decir, una lectora que […]
As I announced in the first post of this year, I have launched a new edition of the Department’s Book Club. My collaborator, Felicity Hand, and myself visited a series of classrooms a couple of weeks ago to present the club, and sent all the students an email message through the BA and MA degree […]
Como anuncié en la primera entrada de este curso, he lanzado una nueva edición del club de lectura del Departamento. Mi colaboradora, Felicity Hand, y yo visitamos una serie de aulas hace un par de semanas para presentar el club, y enviamos a todos los estudiantes un mensaje a través de los coordinadores de Grado […]
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 […]
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), […]
I am finally breaking a silence of four weeks after being snowed under a prodigious mountain of proofreading and being also busy writing indexes, aspects of writing we never discuss. I’m breaking that bad habit here. I used my time off the classroom in 2022 to work on four volumes to be published in […]
This post is inspired by the article “Seventy-five years of richly illustrated literary classics – in pictures”, which celebrates the work of The Folio Society. This is a British independent publisher, established in 1947, which has so far published 2400 beautifully designed editions for book lovers. Not knowing anything about them, I was astonished not […]
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 […]
On September 14, the Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 led by Ione Belarra, Secretary General of left-wing party Podemos, launched the campaign #BastaDeDistopías [#StopDystopias] to encourage the debate around the current general discouragement, especially among the young. The main piece is a 1-minute video in which various characters are seen in what […]