European Society for the Study of English

[5][6] The past Presidents of ESSE have been Piero Boitani (1990–95), Helmut Bonheim (1995–2001), Adolphe Haberer (2001–07), Fernando Galván (2007–13), Liliane Louvel (2013–19) and Andreas H. Jucker (2019-2025).

In this respect, ESSE offers a bursary scheme to help support young academics, and provides book grants to researchers.

[2][9] In parallel, ESSE also organises a Doctoral Symposium, open to PhD students who are writing their theses in English Studies.

[10] As stipulated in its Constitution (4.3),[3] ESSE is the editor of a biannual publication which was issued as a newsletter under the name The European English Messenger, in printed format (1990-2015).

[3] ESSE conferences have taken place so far in:[15] Norwich (1991), Bordeaux (1993), Glasgow (1995), Debrecen (1997), Helsinki (2000), Strasbourg (2002), Zaragoza (2004), London (2006) [1], Aarhus (2008), Turin (2010), Istanbul (2012), Kosice (2014)[2], Galway (2016), Brno (2018)[3][usurped], Lyon (2020, postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic)[4], Mainz (2022)[5] and Lausanne (2024) [6].

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