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The Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and Peter Lang Oxford invite submissions for their
2018 Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies.
Submissions are invited from early career scholars in German Studies for academic monographs to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. The winner
of the prize will receive a contract to publish the volume with Peter Lang.
Applicants should have been awarded a PhD from a British or Irish university between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2017.
Applications should include an abstract (with chapter synopses), CV, the complete PhD thesis, examiners’ reports, a supervisor’s reference and a letter stating
that the monograph is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
These documents should be provided in separate Microsoft Word or PDF files and submitted to
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by 31st May 2018. Monographs may be written in German or English.
The winner will be offered a contract for a fully-funded book to be published within six months of receipt of the complete and approved manuscript. Planned
manuscripts should be 80,000 to 120,000 words in length. The winner will be expected to copy-edit the manuscript in accordance with the style guidelines provided.
Decisions will be made by 31st July 2018 and the winner will be notified shortly thereafter.
For further information about the prize, please contact Dr Nicholas Martin, Director of the Institute for German Studies, Department of Modern Languages, University
of Birmingham, B15 2TT. E-mail:
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Previous IGS/Peter Lang ECR Prize Winners
2017 Winner - Lauren Selfe,
Representations of Muslim Women in German Popular Culture, 1990–2016 (Winner, 2017). ISBN 978-1-78707-997-7. Forthcoming 2018.
2017 Runner-up - Peter Eckersley,
Power and Capacity in Urban Climate Governance: Germany and England Compared. ISBN 978-1-78707-951-9. Forthcoming 2018.
2016 Winner - Jessica Wood,
Portraits of the Artist: Dionysian Creativity in Selected Works by Gabriele D’Annunzio and Thomas Mann. ISBN 978-1-78707-003-5.
Available from
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/77504.
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Dr Nicholas Martin
Director of the Institute for German Studies
College of Arts and Law / College of Social Sciences
University of Birmingham
GB-Birmingham B15 2TT