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ESSE
BOOK AWARD 2008
A book prize of 1500 euros will be awarded by ESSE every two years, coinciding with the biennial conference, for books in each of the following fields: a) English language and linguistics b) Literatures in the English language c) Cultural studies in English The deadline for the next book award is 1 February 2008. The winners will be announced on the occasion of ESSE/9 in Aarhus. The books that may be submitted for consideration will have to be books published in 2006 or 2007. The requirements are as follows: 1) Books eligible for prizes will be those published in English; they should have an ISBN number. PhD dissertations published in book format, with an ISBN number, are accepted. Editions of collected essays will not qualify for these prizes. The books must be works of scholarly research in the field of English studies. Undergraduate textbooks will not be considered. 2) Any number of books may be submitted by the same author (provided that they are published within the admitted period of time). 3) No age, geographical or nationality discrimination will be made; books will be evaluated strictly on the basis of their academic value. 4) Authors must be members of national associations affiliated to ESSE, and should submit for consideration three review copies of the book. Three copies of the submitted book are absolutely necessary. 5) The book(s) submitted shall not be returned. 6) The candidates will first write to the ESSE President (fernando.galvan@uah.es), informing him of their intention to participate, declaring their affiliation to a national association which is a member of ESSE, giving their university address, mentioning the field to which their book belongs, and indicating whether the book will be sent by the author or by the publisher. 7) Review copies will be sent to the President of ESSE (Professor Fernando Galván, Vicerrectorado de Planificación Académica y Profesorado, Universidad de Alcalá, Plaza San Diego, s/n, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain) by 1 February 2008. The deadline must be observed. 8) The selection committees (three members each) will be appointed by the Board of ESSE in each of the three fields named above. Their composition will not be made public. Board members shall not pass on any information concerning this matter to the members of their associations. The Executive will replace any members who are unable to carry out their duties. The Chairs of the selection committees will report progress regularly to the President. The members of the three committees can be Board members or ESSE members invited by the Board to do the selection job. The members of the committees are excluded from submitting their own books. 9) Two months before the opening of the conference a shortlist of a maximum of five books in each field will be announced on the ESSE Web site. Board members are asked to report to the President any misgivings that they may have about the propriety of awarding a prize to any book on the short list, with the President passing on such comments to the committees if he deems it appropriate. The Committees will recommend the awards to the Board, or they may recommend that no award be made in a particular field. The President will report to the Board whether the work of the committees has been satisfactorily conducted. The Board may then approve the recommendations of the committees or they may reject a recommendation, in which case no award will be given in that field. Winners will be informed immediately in confidence, and the awards will be publicly announced at the General Meeting of ESSE, in Aarhus. The winners for 2006
 English Literature : Derek Attridge (University of York) for his book The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge), 2004. http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/staff/academic/attridge.htm (see below the photograph of Professor Attridge receiving the ESSE Book Award for English Literature from Professor Adolphe Haberer, President of ESSE in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, on 2nd September 2006).
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/Catalog/karayanni.shtml As laid down in the regulations adopted by the Board of ESSE (see the EBA webpage), two months before the opening of the London conference, a shortlist of a maximum of five books in each field is to be announced on the ESSE Website. Here are the three short lists as they stood for the 2006 ESSE Book Awards. Names are given in alphabetical order. Note that an exception was made for Linguistics and Literature, which both list six titles. Cultural Studies. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni (Nicosia). Dancing, Fear & Desire. Race, Sexuality & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2004, reprinted 2005. ISBN: 0-88920-454-3. Ana Parejo Vadillo (Exeter). Women Poets and Urban Aestheticsm: Passengers of Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 1-4039-3538-6. Linguistics. Sebastian Hoffmann (Zurich). Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions. A Corpus-based Study. London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 0-415-36049-8. John Holm (Coimbra). Languages in Contact. The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. ISBN: 0-521-43051-8. Anya Janoshka (Zurich). Web Advertising. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004. ISBN: 90-272-5374-9. Gunther Kaltenböck (Vienna). It-extraposition and non-extraposition in English. A Study of Syntax in Spoken and written texts. Vienna: Braumüller, 2004. ISBN: 3-7003-1461-2. Pavol Stekauer (Presov, Slovakia). Meaning Predictability in Word Formation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. ISBN: 90-272-1563-4. Peter Trudgil (Agder U., Norway). New Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes. Edinburgh UP, 2004 (pb 2006). ISBN: 0-7486-1877-5. Literature. Derek Attridge (York). The Singularity of Literature. London: Routledge, 2004. ISBN: 0-415-33593-0. Elleke Boehmer (Royal Holloway, London). Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation. Manchester UP, 2005. ISBN: 0-7190-6978-9. Stef Craps (Ghent). Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. ISBN: 1-84519-004-1. Park Honan (Leeds). Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Oxford UP, 2005. ISBN: 0-19-818695-9. Neil Rhodes (St Andrews). Shakespeare and the Origins of English. Oxford UP, 2004. ISBN: 0-7-19924572-X. György E. Szönyi (Szeged, Hungary). John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation Through Powerful Signs. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-7914-6223-4. Again, as laid down in
the regulations, at the meeting of the
ESSE Board preceding the opening of the Conference, the committees
recommend awards to the Board, or they may recommend that no award be
given in a particular field. The President then reports to the Board
whether the work of the committees has been satisfactorily conducted.
After a vote of the Board, winners are informed immediately
in confidence, and the awards are publicly announced at the General
Meeting of ESSE. In 2006 the meeting took place on 2 September, at 2.30
pm.
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The
Linguistics of English : John Holm
(University of Coimbra, Portugal) for his book Languages in
Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars ( Cambridge :
CUP), 2004.