{"id":4914,"date":"2026-07-21T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:30:55","slug":"esse-book-awards-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/esse-book-awards-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSE Book Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For books first published in <strong>2024<\/strong> and <strong>2025<\/strong> (date on imprint page of published book)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-8ef60f57-bed5-4bcf-86c2-ecf5eaa9f1e0\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Category A is open for all books<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Category B is for the first book only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESSE Book Awards Ceremony<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday 31 August 2026 in Santiago de Compostela<br>as part of the ESSE-18 conference opening (12.30 p.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shortlists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In alphabetical order<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. English Language and Linguistics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category A (Open)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-414b3c8c-e208-42db-92ac-155a18b4a874\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Axel Bohmann.\u00a0<em>English across Borders. A Reflexive Approach to Anglophone Migrants\u2019 Repertoires.<\/em> John Benjamins, 2025.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson, and Merja Kyt\u00f6.\u00a0<em>Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daniela Landert.\u00a0<em>Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics. Epistemic Stance in Early Modern English<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vanessa Leonardi and Patrizia Giampieri.\u00a0<em>Legal English through the Ages: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Change and Continuity<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo.\u00a0<em>A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women. From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category B (First book)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-3c223762-f88e-422b-8088-efc66652de42\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anika Gerfer.\u00a0<em>Jamaican Creole in Global Reggae and Dancehall Performances: Language Use, Perceptions, Attitudes<\/em>. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elen Le Foll.\u00a0<em>Textbook English: A Multi-Dimensional Approach<\/em>. John Benjamins, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephen Turton.\u00a0<em>Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600\u20131930<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Literatures in the English language<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category A (Open)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-3a4cce40-8bde-4b1d-b520-eda854bbbf50\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Colombino, Laura. <em>Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics<\/em>. Routledge, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cuming, Emily. <em>Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the Water&#8217;s Edge, 1850\u20131914<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Effe, Alexandra. <em>A History of Autofiction: Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18th-Century England to Contemporary Global Anglophone Literatures<\/em>. Bloomsbury, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guttzeit, Gero. <em>In\/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century.<\/em> Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steiner, Enit K. <em>Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century<\/em>. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category B (First book)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-31c2cf47-9ac8-4b3f-b329-08724cadc73f\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Julia Ditter. <em>Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination<\/em>. Bloomsbury, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cristina Salcedo Gonz\u00e1lez. <em>The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction. From Girl to Woman<\/em>. Bloomsbury, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Scully. <em>Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature<\/em>. Fordham University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00c1ngela Su\u00e1rez-Rodr\u00edguez. <em>Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women\u2019s Writing: Defying the Ontology of the Stranger<\/em>. Routledge, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michelle Vaziri Leila. <em>The Theatre of Anxiety: Border Crossings in 21st-Century British Theatre<\/em>. De Gruyter, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Cultural and Area Studies in English<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category A (Open)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-7ed54bf0-4081-4b9e-b174-87793ba7c29d\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Paul Crosthwaite. <em>Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis.<\/em> Oxford University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00c1gnes Zs\u00f3fia Kov\u00e1cs. <em>The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton\u2019s Travel Writings.<\/em> Routledge, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pavan Kumar Malreddy. <em>Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South<\/em>. Cambridge University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Micha\u00ebl Roy. <em>Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement.<\/em> New York University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category B (First book)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-d865bf8b-cff0-48e5-b505-53f82a61df1f\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nicoletta Asciuto. <em>Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry<\/em>. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julia Echeverr\u00eda. <em>Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre<\/em>. Routledge, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gabriela Minden. <em>Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fernando P\u00e9rez-Garc\u00eda. <em>Reading Wayde Compton: Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver<\/em>. Routledge, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Astrid Schwegler-Casta\u00f1er. <em>Culinary Discourses in Asian-Australian Writing: Masticating Multiculturalism<\/em>. Brill, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For books first published in 2024 and 2025 (date on imprint page of published book) ESSE Book Awards Ceremony Monday 31 August 2026 in Santiago de Compostelaas part of the ESSE-18 conference opening (12.30 p.m.) Shortlists In alphabetical order 1. English Language and Linguistics Category A (Open) Category B (First book) 2. 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