CZASE Award for an outstanding research monograph

The award acknowledges outstanding achievement in scholarly research in the form of a published monograph for researchers in English studies at any stage of their career.

Frequency: CZASE conference years, 1 regular prize The first call for CZASE book award proposals will be open in 2024 for the CZASE conference in 2025.

Proposal deadline: Proposals must be sent no later than two months before the opening of the CZASE conference, accompanied by an electronic copy of the book, a link to the URL of the publication and its ISBN, and a brief CV which must contain the university affiliation, main field(s) of research, and previous publications. Upon request, hard copies should be provided.

Eligibility:

1. Applicants need to be members of CZASE (in multi-authored monographs at least one author must be a member of CZASE) for at least two years prior to application;

2. the first edition of the monograph must be published no earlier than at the time of the preceding CZASE conference;

3. members of the CZASE board and the inspection committee are excluded from receiving awards.

Criteria:

• Novelty

• Depth and breadth of the study, both theoretically and empirically

• Relevance for further research in the field

• Clarity (arguments are clearly presented; text is comprehensible to a broad audience)

Selection Committee and the process:

• The selection committee consists of the members of the CZASE board, and international experts in the field are invited for review;

• a proposal can be submitted by any member of CZASE;

• monographs in the following fields are eligible:

  • English language and linguistics;

  • literatures in the English language;

  • cultural and area studies in English;

  • translation studies (involving the English language);

  • English language teaching methodology.