SERCIA is proud to award on an annual basis a grant to help young members publish the book version of their PhD dissertation. The dissertation must be written in English or French and must deal with English-language cinema. The dissertation must have been defended in 2024, and the candidate must be a SERCIA member when submitting her/his application. Applications are vetted by a committee of five members, elected by the general assembly for a two-year term. They must be sent as electronic documents to all five members of the committee by May 15, 2025, and must include the dissertation itself, a ten-page book proposal in English (including a presentation of the book, target audience and chapter-by-chapter breakdown) and the minutes of the PhD defense (in English or in French); letters of recommendation (in English) are also welcome. The winner(s) will be announced at the 2025 SERCIA conference.
The members of the committee elected at the General Assembly are:
Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun, Université Paris Diderot
Celestino Deleyto, Universidad de Zaragoza
Nolwenn Mingant, Université d'Angers
Yann Roblou, Université de Valenciennes
Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon
Previous members include Marimar Azcona (Universidad de Zaragoza), Jean-François Baillon (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) and Melvyn Stokes (University College London).
Past winners
2024: Sophie Chadelle for her PhD, “Pour une approche multimodale, interdisciplinaire et féministe de la traduction audiovisuelle : le cas des identités et sexualités féminines dans Sex and the City (HBO, 1998-2004),” Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès; and Hadrien Fontanaud for his PhD “Le romantisme dans le cinéma de David Lean,” Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
2022: Mikaël Toulza for his PhD, “Le vaudou louisianais dans les fictions audiovisuelles : représentation, identité, subversion,” Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès;
2021: Patrick Adamson for his PhD, “‘Americanism in Action’: The 1920s Epic Western and Hollywood Historical Cinema,” University of St Andrews;
2020: Émilie Herbert for her PhD, “Le Cinéma des Réalisatrices Black-British : entre Invisibilité et Stratégies de Résistance,” University de Liège; and Vincent Jaunas for his PhD, “La Subjectivité au prisme de la réflexivité dans l’œuvre de Stanley Kubrick,” Université Bordeaux Montaigne;
2019: Elsa Colombani for her PhD, “Contes gothiques, Tim Burton : de Vincent à Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,” University Paris Ouest Nanterre; and Pablo Gómez Muñoz for his PhD, “A Better World? Cosmopolitan Struggles in Twenty-First Century Science-Fiction Cinema,” Universidad de Zaragoza. Published in 2022 as Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns, Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9780367759063.
2018: Julia Echeverría for her PhD, “The Viral Screen: Viruses, Zombies, and Infectious Diseases in Post-Millenial Films,” Universidad de Zaragoza. Published in 2023 as Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre, Routledge, 2023, ISBN 978-1032541358.
2017: Hervé Mayer for his PhD, “Guerre sauvage et empire de la liberté : prolongements du myth de la frontière dans le cinéma américain post-western” (Savage War and the Empire of Freedom: Continuations of the Myth of the Frontier in Post-western American Cinema), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. Published in 2021 as Guerre sauvage & empire de la libérté, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2021, ISBN 978-2-84516-962-3
