We are delighted to announce to the winner of the BCLA First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The inaugural award goes to Dr Cedric Van Dijck’s Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press). The jury, which included Prof. Ziad Elmarsafy, Prof. […]
Cedric Van Dijck awarded BCLA First Book Prize 2025 Read More »
The BCLA is delighted to relaunch the Arthur Terry Essay Prize as part of the BCLA@50 celebrations. The prize, awarded by the British Comparative Literature Association, recognises work of outstanding merit at Masters level.
The Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award was established by the BCLA in 2020 to offer support to postgraduates affected by the COVID pandemic, and is now the annual bursary awarded to one or more postgraduate members of the BCLA, with a value of up to £250.00. This sum may be used by for any costs incurred
The BCLA Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award Read More »
Please find below the results of the 2024 competition. Many thanks to everyone who entered. The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School
Winners of the 2023-24 John Dryden Translation Competition Read More »
The BCLA launched the First Book Prize in 2023, with a deadline of 1 January 2024, and the prize to be awarded in 2025. The First Book Prize recognises an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The BCLA First Book Prize 2025 will be awarded to a book published between 1st January
The winners of the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition have been announced, and their translations can now be read in the most recent issue of Comparative Critical Studies. The competition, which honors the memory of the 17th-century English poet and translator John Dryden, is held annually and recognizes outstanding translations of literary works from any
The British Comparative Literature Association offers an annual prize for an essay written in English on any aspect of comparative literature in memory of Arthur Terry (1927–2004), who served as President of the BCLA for many years. Arthur Terry was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, and one of the
The BCLA is delighted to announce the outcome of the John Dryden Translation Competition. The John Dryden Translation Competition awards prizes for unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Literary translation includes poetry, prose, or drama from any period. AILSA WOOD AZZARO has been awarded first place for The Beatrice Monologues translated from Stefano Benni’s Italian
Announcement: Winners of the BCLA John Dryden Translation Competition 2021 – 2022 Read More »
All postgraduate members of the British Comparative Literature Association are invited to apply for the Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award 2022. The funding is is worth up to £250.00, and this sum may be used by postgraduate students for any costs incurred for the purpose of research activities. These may include travel expenses, registration fees
BCLA Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award (deadline July 1 2022) Read More »
In 2008 the Society for French Studies launched an annual Malcolm Bowie Prize, to be awarded for the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in the broader discipline of French Studies. Malcolm Bowie was not only the most eminent and inspirational Anglophone scholar of French literature and theory of his
NOW OPEN: Malcolm Bowie Prize 2021 (Deadline 28 February 2022) Read More »
We promote the scholarly study of literature, across languages and borders, national or other. Join Us.
