| Cover photograph with acknowledgments to Paul Sherwood and The Gallery Press, Ireland. Cover designed by Kristian Stotesbury, Mäntsälä, Finland. Contents
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| The President’s Column | 2 | |
| Winners of the ESSE Bursaries for 2004 | 3 | |
| ESSE Book Award 2006 | 4 | |
| In Memoriam Paul-Gabriel Boucé (1936-2004) | 5 | |
| ESSE-8 Confernce, London 2006: First Circular | 6 | |
| Articles | ||
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English Studies in Europe: Past, Present, and Future
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Martin A. Kayman | 8 |
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Asking Directions in Theory
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Anton Kirchhofer | 11 |
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The Recent History of Linguistic Relativity
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Philip Carr | 17 |
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Decency at a Discount? English Studies, Communication, Mediation
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Roger D. Sell | 23 |
| The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian | ||
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An Interview with Medbh McGuckian
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Maria Jesus Lorenzo Modia | 35 |
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Medbh McGuckian: New Poems
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Medbh McGuckian: The Angel in Two Parts
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Borbala Farago | 47 |
| Articles | ||
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The Importance of Travel Writing
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Tim Youngs | 55 |
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ELF at the Gate: The Position of English as a Lingua Franca
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Jennifer Jenkins | 63 |
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English as Heritage: On the Rebranding of a Conventional Discipline
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Charles Owen | 70 |
| Confernce Reports | ||
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19th Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature, April 2004
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81 | |
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14th International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2004
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82 | |
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13th Annual CDE Conference, June 2004
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84 | |
| Book Reviews | ||
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Practical Phonetics and Phonology, by Beverley Collins and Inger M. Mees
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Biljana Cubrovic | 87 |
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The Reformation, by Joseph Arrowsmith
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Clara Calvo | 89 |
| Conferences and Journals | 91 | |
| Editorial Note | 95 | |
| ESSE Board Members | 96 | |