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 from https://ddd.uab.cat/record/116328, 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)).

  • DOING MASCULINITIES STUDIES AS A FEMINIST WOMAN: AIMS AND GAINS

    On Friday I’ll be giving a lecture as the guest of ICGR’s 7th International Conference on Gender Research, to be celebrated at my own university, UAB. The title of my lecture is the one I’m using for this post: ‘Doing Masculinities Studies as a Feminist Woman: Aims and Gains.’ This invitation has reached me at…

  • PRACTICAR ESTUDIOS DE LAS MASCULINIDADES COMO MUJER FEMINISTA: OBJETIVOS Y LOGROS

    El viernes daré una conferencia como invitada de la VII International Conference in Gender Studies Research ó ICGR, que se celebrará en mi propia universidad, la UAB. El título de mi conferencia es el que estoy usando para este post: ‘Practicar Estudios de las Masculinidades como mujer feminista: objetivos y logros’. Esta invitación me ha…

  •  ON OPEN ACCESS: INTO THE LABYRINTH

    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…

  •  SOBRE EL ACCESO ABIERTO: HACIA EL LABERINTO

    Comenzaré hoy citando el post “Types of Open Access Publishing and the Benefits of Each” de Denise Mager del blog Researcher.Life (16 de agosto de 2022), donde he encontrado información sobre, precisamente, los diferentes tipos de publicación en acceso abierto. ¿Listos? (estoy acortando un poco el texto):             ¿Estáis desconcertados? Yo también… Procedamos por partes.…

  • DOING FILM STUDIES WITHIN ENGLISH STUDIES: YES, WE SHOULD

    A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of helping to consolidate the academic career of a brilliant young scholar, Pablo Gómez Muñoz, whose excellent volume Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns (Routledge, 2023), I earnestly recommend. Pablo, who has been working for some years now at the Universidad…