I’m teaching this semester the core subject ‘Contemporary Anglophone Literature: 1990 to the Present’, which we introduced last year in the fourth year of our English Studies BA. I was presenting the introduction to the first unit, 1990-1997, with a survey of the main political, social, and technoscientific events, when I noticed that most persons […]
I re-read the posts I wrote in early September 2020 and 2021, at the beginning of the academic year, and bad as the situation was then because of the widespread presence of Covid-19, they even sound optimistic in comparison to what lies ahead. Talking yesterday with my seventeen-year-old niece, who starts next week her studies […]
Releí los posts que escribí a principios de septiembre de 2020 y 2021, al inicio del curso académico, y por muy mala que fuera la situación entonces por la presencia generalizada del Covid-19, incluso suenan optimistas en comparación con lo que se avecina. Hablando ayer con mi sobrina de diecisiete años, que comienza la próxima […]