In 2008, ESSE continues to offer two types of Bursaries:

1. A number of bursaries of up to 1000 euros each will be available for scholars in need of support to pursue a project or programmes of research leading to the writing of a PhD dissertation.

2. A number of bursaries of up to 1500 euros each will be available for scholars already holding a doctorate or its equivalent and employed at Universities in Central and Eastern Europe who are in need of support to pursue a project or programme of research.

In both cases, winners are expected to make a short-term visit to an outstanding English-speaking country in order to use resources there relevant to their research.

Applicants for the first type of bursaries are required to be members of their national associations affiliated to ESSE, except for those whose associations do not consider PhD students eligible as members; in this case, their supervisors or the department to which they are affiliated must be ESSE members.

Applicants for second type of bursaries must be registered members of their national associations affiliated to ESSE.

The deadline for applications for both types of Bursaries is 1 March 2008. Notification to the applicants should be in the post by 15 April. There is no application form proper. Applicants should send:

- a letter requesting ESSE support and stating briefly how the funds will be used;
- a provisional budget (a model budget can be downloaded here);
- a CV and a list of publications;
- a detailed description of the project (between 500 and 1000 words);
- a letter issued by the president or the secretary of the appropriate national organization to certify the membership of the applicant (or his/her supervisor in Germany and the UK);
- for the first type of Bursary, a letter of recommendation, sent directly via email by the supervisor of the PhD candidate.

These documents should be sent (preferably in one, unified, MS Word or PDF document) by e-mail, by fax or by snail mail) to each of the following three members of the Selection Committee:

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Assoc. Prof. Dr Maria Georgieva, Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail: <mageorg@nlcv.net>.

Prof. Dr Liliane Louvel, UFR Lettres et Langues, Université de Poitiers, 95 avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France. E-mail: <liliane.louvel@univ-poitiers.fr>.

Prof. Dr György Endre Szönyi (Chair of Committee), Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2, Hungary. E-mail: <geszonyi@freemail.hu>.

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Four Type A Bursaries to:

1. Koæiæ-Zámbo, Larisa (HU, University of Szeged). That Complication of Horrors: Milton and the Allegory of Sin and Death.

2. Atanassova, Nadhezhda (BG, St. Kliment University, Sofia). Communicative Strategies of Manipulation in Political Discourse: Bulgarian, British and US Printed Media.

3. Carrasco Carrasco, Rocio (SP, University of Huelva). Images of Men, Images of the Postmodern: the Evolution of Masculinity in North-American Science Fiction Cinema.

4. Puscas, Korina (RO, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca). Philip Roth's Zuckerman Books and the Rhetoric of Fiction.

Four Type B Bursaries to:

1. Eitler, Tamás (HU, ELTE University, Budapest). History of Early Modern Busienss English (East India Company)

2. Rowland, Jana (BG, The Paissij Hilendarski University of Plovdiv). Mourning as Self-Construction In English Poetry of the Victorian Age.

3. Tsvetkova, Marina (RU, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University). The Universe of Ted Hughes' Poetry.

4. Perianova, Irina (BG, University of National and World Economy, Sofia). Food as a Paradigm of Discourse.