{"id":28,"date":"2013-03-13T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T14:05:31","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<form role=\"search\" method=\"get\" action=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/\" class=\"wp-block-search__button-inside wp-block-search__text-button aligncenter wp-block-search\"    ><label class=\"wp-block-search__label screen-reader-text\" for=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" >Cerca<\/label><div class=\"wp-block-search__inside-wrapper\"  style=\"width: 464px\"><input class=\"wp-block-search__input\" id=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" type=\"search\" name=\"s\" required \/><button aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"wp-block-search__button wp-element-button\" type=\"submit\" >Search<\/button><\/div><\/form>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" style=\"width:465px;height:269px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen.png 1000w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/09\/imagen-768x445.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><em>The Joys of Teaching Literature<\/em>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/116328\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ddd.uab.cat\/record\/116328\">yearly volumes<\/a> for free or read the volume collecting some of the entries (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.ujaen.es\/libro\/passionate-professing-the-context-and-practice-of-english-literature_149716\/\">Passionate Professing: The Context and Practice of English Literature<\/a><\/em>, 2023). The comments option is not available, sorry, but you may contact me through my e-mail address, <a href=\"mailto:Sara.Martin@uab.cat\">Sara.Martin@uab.cat<\/a>. The contents of this blog are protected by a type 4 Creative Common License (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4554 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-english-studies category-literary-studies category-post-graduate category-research category-students category-teaching-tools-and-rules category-university tag-english-literature tag-english-studies tag-phd-dissertations tag-thesis\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/07\/05\/after-a-seminar-some-reflections-on-doctoral-dissertations-in-english-literature-and-culture\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u00a0AFTER A SEMINAR: SOME REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS (IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-05T16:05:25+00:00\">5 de juliol de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I\u2019ve had the honour of being a guest speaker at the seventh doctoral seminar that AEDEAN (Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos) has organized at the Universidad de Cantabria, in Santander. This has been held less than one month after the conference organized by ASYRAS (Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies), at the University of&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4552 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-docencia category-escritura-academcia category-estudiantes category-estudios-literarios category-investigacion tag-literatura-inglesa tag-supervision-de-tesis tag-tesis-doctoral\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/07\/05\/despues-de-un-seminario-algunas-reflexiones-sobre-las-tesis-doctorales-en-literatura-y-cultura-inglesas\/\" target=\"_self\" >DESPU\u00c9S DE UN SEMINARIO: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS TESIS DOCTORALES (EN LITERATURA Y CULTURA INGLESAS)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-05T16:03:17+00:00\">5 de juliol de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">He tenido el honor de ser ponente invitada en el s\u00e9ptimo seminario doctoral que AEDEAN (Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos) ha organizado en la Universidad de Cantabria, en Santander. Este encuentro se ha celebrado menos de un mes despu\u00e9s del congreso organizado por ASYRAS (Asociaci\u00f3n de J\u00f3venes Investigadores en Estudios Angl\u00f3fonos), en la Universidad de&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4538 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-academic-writing category-contemporary-literature category-cultural-studies category-gender-studies category-genre category-literary-criticism category-literary-studies category-masculinities-studies category-research tag-autobiography tag-corpus tag-fathers tag-gender tag-memoirs tag-sons\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/06\/28\/selecting-a-corpus-for-a-book-on-patriography-how-much-is-too-much\/\" target=\"_self\" >SELECTING A CORPUS FOR A BOOK (ON PATRIOGRAPHY): HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-28T08:37:57+00:00\">28 de juny de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">If I write here about the books I\u2019m preparing, I eventually shame myself into writing them, so here we go. I had been reading for a while for a book on secondary characters in the European novel when it struck me that the committee judging the research exercises (or \u2018sexenios\u2019) might consider it Comparative Literature&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4533 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-escritura-academcia category-estudios-culturales category-estudios-de-genero category-estudios-de-las-masculinidades category-estudios-literarios category-investigacion category-literatura-contemporanea tag-autobiografia tag-corpus tag-genero-identidad tag-genero-literario tag-hijos tag-memorias tag-padres tag-patriografia\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/06\/28\/seleccionando-un-corpus-para-un-libro-sobre-patriografia-cuanto-es-demasiado\/\" target=\"_self\" >SELECCIONANDO UN CORPUS PARA UN LIBRO (SOBRE PATRIOGRAF\u00cdA): \u00bfCU\u00c1NTO ES DEMASIADO?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-28T08:33:05+00:00\">28 de juny de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Si escribo aqu\u00ed sobre los libros que estoy preparando, me da verg\u00fcenza no escribirlos, as\u00ed que all\u00e1 vamos. Llevaba un tiempo preparando un libro sobre personajes secundarios en la novela europea cuando me di cuenta de que el comit\u00e9 que juzga los sexenios de investigaci\u00f3n podr\u00eda considerarlo Literatura Comparada en lugar de Estudios Ingleses. Puede&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4522 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-academic-writing category-english-studies category-general category-literary-criticism category-literary-studies category-research tag-academic-article tag-academic-journals tag-editing tag-editing-collective-volumes tag-editor tag-paper tag-peer-reviewing\">\n<h2 style=\"text-transform:uppercase;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/06\/23\/fed-up-altogether-time-to-stop-trying-to-publish-articles-in-journals\/\" target=\"_self\" >FED-UP ALTOGETHER \u2013 TIME TO STOP TRYING TO PUBLISH ARTICLES IN JOURNALS?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;\" class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-23T08:37:01+00:00\">23 de juny de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Today I\u2019ve received one of those blind peer reviewer reports which tells me how useless I am and how totally sub-standard my work is because\u2026 I mean, so many things that, really, I wonder that I\u2019ve published anything at all. What the reviewers don\u2019t know is that I no longer need to publish any more&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<nav class=\"wp-block-query-pagination is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-query-pagination-is-layout-5590e8cb wp-block-query-pagination-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Paginaci\u00f3\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query-pagination-numbers\"><span aria-current=\"page\" class=\"page-numbers current\">1<\/span>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-1-page=2\">2<\/a>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-1-page=3\">3<\/a>\n<span class=\"page-numbers dots\">&hellip;<\/span>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-1-page=203\">203<\/a><\/div>\n\n<a href=\"\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28?query-1-page=2\" class=\"wp-block-query-pagination-next\">P\u00e0gina seg\u00fcent<span class='wp-block-query-pagination-next-arrow is-arrow-chevron' aria-hidden='true'>\u00bb<\/span><\/a>\n<\/nav>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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