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PhD position in Stavanger

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276009/phd-fellowship-in-linguistics

The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the project North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact (NANTiC) and the FLUENT research group (Fleirspråkleg utvikling og endring i nyare tid). 

The North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact project investigates prosody, i.e., suprasegmental phonology, in heritage language Norwegian in the United States. A heritage language is a language that is naturally acquired at home or in the local community, but is not the dominant language of the larger national society. The project focuses on tonal accents in the North American diaspora of Norwegian speakers, which have been in contact with English for over a hundred years. Accordingly, the project has two primary objectives. The first is to examine the consequences of English-Norwegian language contact on North American Norwegian tonal accents and connected language structures. The second is to expand research on the relationship between morphological processes and prosody, especially for heritage languages and the languages they are in contact with.   

The PhD project must be in the fields of phonology, morphology, or morphophonology, and be connected to one or both project objectives. Applicants must propose a project and submit a project proposal. 

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ESSE: Call for Applications

ESSE Positions: Call for applications and nominations for the positions of Treasurer of ESSE and Secretary of ESSE

The Nominations Committee of the ESSE Board seeks applications for the positions of Treasurer and Secretary, which fall vacant in January 2026. The usual term of office is three years. Candidates, who should preferably have been involved in ESSE affairs or have had similar positions in their national associations, should submit, as e–mail attachments:

  • a letter of application
  • a short (2–3 page) CV
  • letters of support from two national associations.

Each national association can also nominate candidates for any of these two positions (only one candidate for each position). In this case, national associations will submit, as e–mail attachments:

  • a letter, signed by the association’s President, describing the candidate’s competence for the specific office
  • a short (2–3 page) CV of candidate(s) proposed
  • a letter, signed by another association’s President, seconding this proposal
  • a letter in which the candidate will express his/her agreement with the candidacy.

Applications and nominations must be submitted by e-mail, by 30th April 2025 at the latest, to all three members of the Nominations Committee: 

Please use the following appropriate wording in the subject line:

  • ESSE: Application/Nomination for Treasurer  or
  • ESSE: Application/Nomination for Secretary   

From the applications and nominations received, the Committee will prepare a shortlist for the ESSE Board. Finalists will be interviewed (in person or online) and elected by a vote at the ESSE Board meeting in Malta, 5-6th September 2025.

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NJES Call for Papers

NJES special issue on Teaching literature in Nordic L2 English classrooms, Spring 2027


Over the past three decades, policy in the Nordic countries has emphasised the positive relation between research and teaching—for teacher professionalism, for student outcomes and for school development—and this has led to significant investments in educational research. These have not only bolstered the establishment of English language education research, but also heralded the emergence of the sub-field of literature education in English as a second, additional or foreign language (L2). This sub-field, which is positioned between the humanities and educational science, theorises and empirically investigates the norms, principles and assumptions underlying literature teaching and learning practices. It bridges literary studies with L2 English instruction and thereby provides crucial insights for both teachers and researchers.

This NJES special issue aims to present the latest research on the teaching of literature in English classrooms across primary and secondary education in the Nordic countries. The special issue has a threefold ambition: first, to showcase the breadth and relevance of this sub-field for L2 English education, second, to further the scholarly conversation about the teaching of literature in L2 English across the Nordic countries, and, third, to contribute with research findings that can underpin the research-teaching nexus in Nordic teacher education programmes and school teaching.
We welcome conceptual and empirical contributions on the teaching of literature in L2 English. Submissions employing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approaches are welcome. Potential areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

  • The purposes, nature and potential of literature instruction (e.g., conceptual studies)
  • The conditions for teaching literature (e.g., policy, textbook studies)
  • The characteristics of literature instruction (e.g., classroom observation studies)
  • Effective teaching designs (e.g., action research, design-based, intervention studies)
  • Student and teacher perceptions of literature instruction (e.g., interview, survey studies)


The editors invite expressions of interest for potential inclusion in the special issue by August 31, 2025. Invitations for full manuscripts will be sent to authors by September 15, 2025. Full manuscripts (max 8,000 words, incl. references) will be due to the editors March 15, 2026. All manuscripts will be double-blind peer reviewed.

Please send your expression of interest to Katherina Dodou katherina.dodou@ils.uio.no and Marit Elise Lyngstad marit.lyngstad@inn.no

Submission Guidelines for Expressions of Interest:
Title: A provisional title for the proposed manuscript.
Abstract: A brief abstract (250–300 words) outlining the scope, aims, methodology, and potential contribution of the research.
Key Contributions: A statement (1–2 sentences) summarizing the unique contributions the manuscript is expected to make to the field of L2 English literature education.
Keywords: Include up to five keywords.
Author Information: Name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact details of the author(s).

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Helsinki Vacancy

Helsinki University has an open position in English Literatures. Check the link for details.

https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Assistant-Associate-professor-or-Professor-of-English-Literatures/812482602/

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ESSE Conference

The Department of English and German Philology at the
University of Santiago de Compostela has the pleasure of
welcoming you to the 18th ESSE Conference, which will take place from
31st August to 4th September 2026.

As is tradition, the conference will consist of a combination of plenary
lectures, parallel lectures, roundtables, seminars, posters, and the
Doctoral Symposium. Details of each format and how to participate can
be found below.

  1. PLENARY LECTURES
    A select group of renowned experts, representing the key disciplines of
    English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area
    Studies, will be invited by the Organising Committee to deliver plenary
    lectures. Each of these speakers has been chosen for their significant
    contributions to their respective fields.
  2. PARALLEL LECTURES
    In addition to the plenary lectures, approximately 12 parallel
    lectures will be featured during the conference. These lectures will be
    delivered by members of ESSE, nominated by their respective national
    associations as explained below. Each presentation will be 45 minutes
    in duration and those selected to present will receive a full waiver of
    conference registration fees.

    We invite National Associations to propose candidates for the parallel
    lecture sessions. A maximum of two nominations per association will be accepted to ensure a diverse and balanced selection process. National Associations should submit a description of their nominees’ lecture topic along with a concise CV. Nominations should be submitted through the national association’s President or designated representative and forwarded to the Academic Programme Committee (APC) by 1st May 2025 at esse2026@usc.es

    Depending on the number of proposals received, the APC may implement a selection process. Key criteria will include the proposal’s relevance and appeal to a broad academic audience, as well as its potential to engage with recent advances or fresh perspectives in English Studies. The APC will also prioritise achieving a balanced representation of key disciplines—English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area Studies—and striving for equitable representation of national associations wherever possible.
  3. SEMINARS
    Proposals for seminars related to the three fields mentioned above must be jointly submitted by two ESSE members from different national associations. In some cases, the APC may permit one of the convenors to be a non-ESSE member (for example, if they are based outside Europe), provided their involvement is deemed especially valuable for the seminar. Each seminar proposal must include the convenors’ names, affiliations, email addresses, and a 300-word description of the seminar’s topic (excluding bibliographical references). Please send your proposals via email to esse2026@usc.es by 1st May 2025.

    The APC will consider the proposal’s international appeal and its potential to engage with recent advances in English Studies as key selection criteria, while also striving for a balanced representation across key disciplines—English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural and Area Studies— wherever possible.

    Unlike roundtables, seminars are not pre-arranged sessions and will be featured in the APC’s upcoming call for papers. However, convenors are encouraged to actively recruit potential contributors. The seminar format aims to promote interactive participation from both presenters and the audience. To foster engagement, presentations should be
    delivered orally rather than read from a script. Further guidelines will be included in the corresponding call for papers.

    Individual Seminar Contributions
    The call for seminar contributions will be launched in September 2025, once the list of accepted seminars is finalised. Those wishing to submit a proposal must send a 300-word abstract (excluding bibliographical references) to the convenors of their chosen seminar by 31st January 2026. Information regarding the organisation of seminar sessions, including the number of papers per session, will be made available on the ESSE 2026 website in September 2025, along with the full list of seminars and contact details for the convenors.

    Seminars will feature a range of academic papers and discussions. Each presentation should last 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. Exceptionally, convenors may need to request shorter presentations to accommodate more participants in their sessions.
    Participants at ESSE 2026 are limited to presenting a single paper during the conference, whether it is a sole-authored or co-authored contribution.
  4. ROUNDTABLES
    The aim of roundtables is to present topics and problems currently seen as shaping the nature of the discipline. At a roundtable, a pre-constituted panel discusses issues of fairly general scholarly or professional interest in front of, and subsequently with, an audience. In other words, roundtables are not sequences of papers but should rather be approached as debate sessions. Proposals should include a 500-word description of the topic (excluding bibliographical references) and the names and affiliations of at least three participants (including the convenor), who must be drawn from more than one national association. The maximum number of speakers will be five.

    Please send your proposals to esse2026@usc.es by 1st May 2025.
  5. POSTERS
    Posters will be devoted to research-in-progress and project presentations. The aim is to provide additional opportunities for feedback and personal contacts. Further details will appear on the conference website in September 2025. Proposals of not more than 300 words (excluding bibliographical references) must be sent to esse2026@usc.es by 31st January 2026.
  6. DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
    A key feature of the ESSE Conference is the Doctoral Symposium, which upholds a tradition established in 2012. This event offers young scholars the opportunity to present their research and receive valuable feedback.

    Information regarding the Doctoral Symposium will be announced in due time.

    DEADLINES
    Submission of proposals for parallel lectures from national associations to esse2026@usc.es
    1st May 2025

    Submission of proposals for seminars and roundtables from prospective convenors to esse2026@usc.es
    1st May 2025

    Submission of individual papers for seminars to seminar convenors
    31st January 2026

    Submissions of individual posters to esse2026@usc.es
    31st January 2026

    Registration will begin on 1st March 2026

    Please check the conference website for further updates at
    https://www.esse2026.com/
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ESSE Doctoral Symposium 2025

Announcement: extension of deadline

To enable all PhD students who would like to take part in this year’s ESSE Doctoral Symposium to submit a proposal, the ESSE Executive has decided to extend the period during which applications can be accepted to 31 January 2025.

Full information about the Symposium, which will take place on 3 and 4 September 2025 at the University of Malta, in the capital city of Valletta, can be found here.

Supervisors of PhD students in the second or later year of their doctoral trajectory should encourage their students to participate. Substantial financial support is available to mitigate the costs of travel and accommodation.

The hundreds of PhD-holders in English Studies who participated in the Symposium at some point in the run-up to their graduation can testify that the experience was important or even decisive for the content of their thesis and their academic career. Not only do the attendees get the chance to present their ideas (and their anxieties) to an international audience composed of experts in research methodology and their peers from other European countries, but they also can profit from opportunities to form international connections and to enjoy the benefits of research collaboration.

The ESSE Board, representing all thirty-three Associations federated within the Society, is enthusiastic in its support for the Symposium. The extension of the application deadline will make it possible for that support to be translated into reality again this year.

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Trondheim Young Researcher Symposium on Multilingualism (TYRSM), Trondheim, Norway, May 26-27, 2025

Call for Abstracts

Nine years after the very successful Young Researchers Symposium on Multilingualism (DISM) in Donostia in 2016, and its equally successful follow-ups in Szczyrk (2017) and Morella (2023), the next edition will take place in Trondheim, Norway’s first capital (from the Viking Age until 1217). Trondheim is the third largest city in Norway and home to the country’s largest university: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). 

The Trondheim Young Researchers Symposium on Multilingualism (TYRSM) will bring together early career researchers (i.e., MA, PhD, and Postdoc students) who work on multilingualism from different perspectives, be it cognitive, linguistic, sociolinguistic, or educational. Senior scholars can also attend the symposium as co-authors of the work presented by young researchers. 

We are inviting submissions for posters with short oral presentations. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding the references) should be submitted to iamsymposium2025@gmail.com  by January 31, 2025.

TYRSM will also include two sessions in which experienced researchers will give advice on academic career trajectories, work-life balance, research methodology, mentoring, paper reviewing processes, among other issues that may be of interest to early career researchers.

The symposium fee is €50 for early birds and €70 for late registration. The International Association of Multilingualism will fund 10 grants (€400 each) for selected graduate students to attend the symposium. Further information about applications for funding will be communicated to authors in the acceptance letter.

The symposium is organized by:

The International Association of Multilingualism (IAM)

Scientific committee:

Freya Gastmann, LMU Munich, Germany & University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Romana Kopeckova, University of Münster, Germany

Anna Krulatz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Eliane Lorenz, University of Giessen, Germany

Pernelle Lorette, University of Mannheim, Germany

Richard Nightingale, University Jaume I de Castelló, Spain

Simone Pfenninger, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Greg Poarch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Magdalena Wrembel, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Organizing committee:

Anna Krulatz

Georgios Neokleous

Eivind Torgersen

Sercan Uztosun

Burcu Uzunoner Aydin

Important dates

Abstract deadline: January 31, 2025

Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2025

Applications for funding: February 28, 2025

Early registration deadline: March 15

Regular registration deadline: April 15

Contact email: iamsymposium2025@gmail.com

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Vacancy: English Linguistics, Leuven

KU Leuven is hiring a Tenure-Track Professor in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on English.

We offer a full-time position with teaching duties at the university’s Antwerp Campus in the Dutch-taught Bachelor of Applied Language Studies and Master of Multilingual Communication. This position should be of interest to junior colleagues holding a PhD in (Applied) Linguistics with a focus on English, with research expertise in either multilingualism & language acquisition or in multilingual communication, and with strong quantitative methodological skills.

For more information, see: https://academicpositions.com/ad/ku-leuven/2024/tenure-track-professor-of-applied-linguistics-with-a-focus-on-english-faculty-of-arts-ku-leuven/227573

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ESSE bursaries and support schemes 2025

It is my pleasure to inform you that the announcements for various ESSE research support schemes for 2025 are now posted at the ESSE website https://essenglish.org.

Here is the list of various support schemes that ESSE offers, all posted at https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/:  

ESSE Doctoral Symposium, for PhD students working on their dissertations: https://essenglish.org/doctoral-symposium/ . The deadline for application is 15 January 2025. 

There is also a support scheme for the national associations:

Conference plenary speaker support https://essenglish.org/conference-plenary-speaker-support/, to invite plenary speakers to their national associations’ conferences,

Additionally, and importantly, there is also an announcement for the positions of ESSE Treasurer and ESSE Secretary. The deadline for applications is 30 April 2025. More details how to apply at https://essenglish.org/esse-announcements/.

Best regards,

Biljana

Prof. Biljana Mišić Ilić

ESSE Secretary

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
esse.secretary@outlook.com

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NAES 2025: “Attending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on Anglophonia”

Nordic Association for English Studies Triennial ConferenceÅbo / Turku Finland, 8–10 May 2025

In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of attention has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, the “contemporary experience […] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much of our immediate environment”.[1] At the same time, contemporary society has been significantly impacted by seemingly conflicting forces and paradoxical processes of attention and distraction in various institutional, cultural, and technological contexts. The focus of this conference will be on any of the many ways in which the field of English Studies – and disciplinary perspectives from literature, culture, and history to linguistics and education – addresses and is shaped by various aspects of attention. These range from tensions between mediated experience and phenomenal perception to how political and cultural narratives direct our attention to some aspects of society while creating blind spots elsewhere. In addition to abstracts exploring this theme, the NAES are glad to invite panel suggestions on administrative issues as well as proposals for papers on other areas of interest related to Nordic English Studies.

Themes for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Attending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on English Studies
  • Surveillance, control, and the politics of attention
  • Technology and the media: forms of attention and inattention
  • Borders, surveys, and mappings
  • Nordic English Studies and attention in education
  • Local, global, and transnational attention – place, mobility, and migration
  • Hotspots and blind spots: geography and the environment
  • Attention, crisis, and catastrophe: personal and social perspectives
  • Attention and the phenomenology of perception
  • The aesthetics and poetics of attention in literature and the arts; authorship, narrative, perspective
  • Generational and societal changes in attention
  • Religion, politics, and social groups
  • Ageing and attention
  • Attending to language: linguistics, translation, and the multilingual society
  • Diachronic and/or synchronic approaches and methods

Proposals for individual 20-minute presentations or panels/roundtables (3 speakers) should be sent by email to info-naes@abo.fi by 16 December 2024.

Proposals should include: name(s), institutional affiliation(s), paper title(s), a 250-word abstract  and a brief biographical note of up to 50 words for each participant. (Three speaker panels may allow 200 words for the overall proposal, 200 words for each speaker’s abstract, and 50 words for each individual biography.) Panel/roundtable proposals should also identify the contact person for the entire session. Prospective speakers will be notified of a decision by 30 January 2025. At the time of the conference, accepted speakers will have 20 minutes at their disposal (with an extra 10 minutes set aside for discussion), and should be fully paid-up members of the NAES.

Hosted by Åbo Akademi University and the University of Turku, the conference is organized in collaboration with the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) whose concurrent annual conference in Åbo / Turku is titled “Attending to Ireland”.

Conference Web page: https://blogs2.abo.fi/naes-efacis2025/ 

Åbo / Turku (the former capital of Finland) is usually very pleasant at the beginning of May. And as the city is situated on the edge of the Finnish archipelago, we envisage that the conference programme will include an optional boat trip through the islands, a visit to Turku Castle, poetry readings, a musical entertainment, and more …

–  KEYNOTE SPEAKERS –

Fiona Farr

Lorna Hutson

Christopher Morash

Andrew Newby

Invited Poet: Desmond Egan

[1] Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (The MIT Press, 1999), p. 1.