ISLE Summer School - Regular registration deadline on 30th April 2026
The ISLE Summer School is taking place from 7th-13th June 2026 at Uppsala University, Sweden, with the theme 'English in Transition: Socio-Cultural Encounters Across Time and Space'.
This is a reminder that the deadline for regular registration is 30th April 2026. For full details and to register, please see the Summer School website: https://www.uu.se/en/department/scandinavian-languages/study/isle-summer-school-2026
The Nominating Committee is tasked with selecting candidates for election to ISLE Executive Committee positions. Kate Burridge has recently stepped down from the Nominating Committee after several years (since 2018) and we would like to extend our thanks to Kate for all of her hard work on the committee over the years.
We are also pleased to announce that Akiko Nagano (University of Shizuoka) has agreed to join the Nominating Committee in her place. Welcome, Akiko! The other members remain the same and we are grateful for their continued support. The full Nominating Committee is therefore as follows:
Kathryn Allen, Chair (University College London, UK)
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Akiko Nagano (University of Shizuoka, Japan)
We invite ISLE members to submit proposals for future ISLE online forum sessions that they would like to organise. Please see below for more details and for a form to submit your proposal:
Proposals for ISLE online forum sessions
Examples of previous online fora that were organised by ISLE members include 'Many Shades of Ink: The Study of Late Modern Biographical Discourse as a Journey of Investigation and Discovery', 'Studying Telecinematic Language', 'Vulgarity in English: Language, Creativity, and Social Meaning', and the most recent of these, 'Historical Corpora in World Englishes'. We welcome any themes relating to research within the remit of ISLE, or broader issues pertaining to aspects of academia.
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) is pleased to invite submissions for the Richard M. Hogg Prize, awarded annually since 2008 in honour of Professor Richard M. Hogg.
The prize recognizes outstanding research in the field of English language and linguistics by early-career scholars, defined as PhD students or post-doctoral researchers who have completed their doctorate within the past two years at the time of submission. Candidates must also be members of ISLE.
The award is given to the best paper on any topic related to the study of English. The paper should not have been published before (except possibly in a departmental working paper or the like), nor should it have been submitted for publication elsewhere (and it should not be submitted for publication until after the prize outcome). The winner will receive £500, and the paper will be published on the ISLE website. In addition, the winner will be encouraged to submit the prize-winning paper—revised where appropriate in line with judges' or referees' comments—for competitive review for publication in a journal closely associated with the aims of the Society.
The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2026. The winner will be announced by 31 July 2026.
Further details—including formatting requirements, style guidelines, and examples of past winning papers—are available on the ISLE website.
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Historical Corpora in World Englishes" with Robert Fuchs, Rotimi O. Oladipupo, Danica Salazar & Guyanne Wilson is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2KqWMpkVz5Q
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Vulgarity in English: Language, Creativity, and Social Meaning" with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l3K4v4LtDTQ
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Teaching with Impact: Linguistics in the Classroom" with Julia Schlüter, Elen Le Foll & Katharina Deckert is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LiBrfWKw_14
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Outreach with Impact: Linguistics in the Public Sphere" with Celeste Rodríguez Louro (moderated by Martin Schweinberger) is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FKvCJqipc-4
