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  • The Society is a European federation of national higher educational associations for the study of English. The Society endeavours to reflect the cultural and geographical diversity of Europe in its institutions.
    The aim of the Society is 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.
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    News from ESSE...

  • 21 April 2008: the winners of ESSE Bursaries for 2008 have been announced.

  • 24 March 2008: Colleagues are invited to propose topics and editors for volume 14. 3 and for volume 15 (2011) of EJES, the official journal of ESSE. For more information, download the call for topics.

  • 17 January 2008: The latest President's Column can be downloaded as a Word® document. ESSE members can also download it in pdf format as it appeared in The Messenger 16.2 (password required).

  • 11 September 2007: the ESSE Database of English Studies Journals (European Publishers) compiled by Dr Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann at Erfurt University, Germany, is now on line, and can be entered from here.




  • These pictures were taken during the Board meeting of ESSE at Vilnius in September 2007. Click on any of the photographs.

    News from national associations...

  • 2 April 2008: Professor Clare Hanson, University of Southampton, has been appointed President of CCUE, the British association.

  • 2 April 2008: Dr Aoife Leahy has been appointed President of NAES, the Irish association.

  • 19 March 2008: BAAHE, the Belgian association, has just released the first issue of its new journal: English Text Construction (successor of BELL), an internationally refereed journal of English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies. More information can be found on the journal's website.

  • 16 January2008: the Romanian association, RSEAS, has a new website.

  • 1 January 2008: The Estonian association having given no sign of any activity for several years, its affiliation to ESSE has been suspended from today.

  • The next ESSE Conference, ESSE 9, will take place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, from Friday 22 August to Tuesday 26 August 2008. Information about ESSE 9 is available from the ESSE-9 conference website.
    The deadline for sending proposals and abstracts to convenors is 1 March 2008.

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