What is ESSE?

The aims of the Society are to advance the education of the public by promoting the European study and understanding of English languages, literatures in English and cultures of English-speaking peoples. The Society endeavours:

• To arrange regular conferences for those researching and teaching English languages, literatures in English and cultures of English-speaking peoples in Europe. Five have been held, in Norwich, 1991, in Bordeaux, 1993, in Glasgow, 1995, in Debrecen, 1997 and in Helsinki, 2000. The next one is going to be held in Strasbourg, from August 30th to September 3rd, 2002. 


The conference registration form and the accommodation registration form for Strasbourg are now on line.
 

• To foster research-networks in specialist topics which will bring together higher education teachers, scholars and writers and facilitate intellectual cooperation. A scholarly journal, the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), is published in cooperation with Swets & Zeitlinger. 
• To provide an information network, in the form of a newsletter (The Messenger), about matters related to English studies in Europe, such as curriculum developments, national conferences, specialised research projects. The Messenger, edited by Martin Kayman, has also initiated the publication of supplements to its regular newsletter, beginning with the report from the Berlin meeting on Resources for Scholarship in Eastern Europe, which, along with Jan Rusiecki's report on Postgraduate Studies in Europe, can be consulted or downloaded here in PDF format (Berlin meeting, Postgraduate Studies in Europe). Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader. 
• To provide information which will facilitate faculty and student exchanges under international cooperation programmes, especially those of the European Union. 
• ESSE now offers a bursary scheme to help support young academics. 

ESSE publication: European English Studies: Contributions towards the History of a Discipline. Ed. by Balz Engler and Renate Haas. Leicester: The English Association, for ESSE, 2000.

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Comments and suggestions are welcome; the ESSE webmaster is Jacques Ramel (Lyon, France).