As a literature professor whose own research is at the intersection of literary and gender and women studies, in each of her courses, Diana Aramburu devotes a few weeks solely to the topic of gender violence and femicide. In this article, she documents her own teaching practices around these topics, and assesses the results of these practices by considering students' analytic and creative output during the course. Moreover, she discusses her use of a critical engagement model and an engaged pedagogical approach in addition to some teaching strategies that she employs to create a space where an open and yet respectful discussion of these topics can take place through literature. The examples she draws on in this article are from "Women Writers in Spain," a sixty-student upper-level undergraduate literature course that she teaches.