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)).

  • KING SOLOMON’S MINES: “IT IS A QUEER BUSINESS”

    Even though I have been teaching H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) for a few years now, it seems I have not written about this novel here. A bit odd. Since I am most likely saying goodbye to it, this is perhaps the right moment to discuss its racist, colonial content, the issue on…

  • LAS MINAS DEL REY SALOMÓN: UN ASUNTO QUEER

    A pesar de que llevo enseñando Las minas del Rey Salomón (1885) de H. Rider Haggard algunos años, parece que no he escrito nada sobre esta novela aquí. Es raro. Dado que lo más probable es que me esté despidiendo de Haggard, este es quizás el momento adecuado para discutir el contenido racista y colonial…

  •  THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT: THE BON JOVI DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES – REFLECTIONS ON THE AGEING MALE ROCK STAR

    My post today is a sort of belated coda to the book I published last year, American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask (see my post on this book), whose Spanish self-translation Detrás de la máscara: masculinidades americanas en el documental contemporáneo, is now available in open access. In that book…

  • THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT: LA MINISERIE DOCUMENTAL SOBRE BON JOVI – REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA MADUREZ DE LA ESTRELLA DE ROCK MASCULINA

    Mi entrada de hoy es una especie de coda tardía al libro que publiqué el año pasado, American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask (ver mi post sobre este libro), cuya autotraducción al español Detrás de la máscara: masculinidades americanas en el documental contemporáneo, ya está disponible en acceso abierto. En…

  • THE PAPER PROPOSAL: AN OPEN TUTORIAL

    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…