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.
Members of the committee elected at the General Assembly:
Julie Assouly, Université d’Artois, Arras
Celestino Deleyto, Universidad de Zaragoza
Sébastien Lefait, Université Aix-Marseille
Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne
Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon
Previous members include Marimar Azcona (Universidad de Zaragoza), Jean-François Baillon (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun (Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle), Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Nolwenn Mingant (Université d’Angers), Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), Yann Roblou (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes) and Melvyn Stokes (University College London).
Past winners
2025
Marine Soubeille for her PhD, “Le Texas à l’écran : écritures mythiques et enjeux historiographiques,” Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
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
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. Published as Projecting America: The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood, University of Oklahoma Press, 2025, ISBN 978-0806196077.
2020
Émilie Herbert for her PhD, “Le Cinéma des Réalisatrices Black-British : entre Invisibilité et Stratégies de Résistance,” University de Liège.
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.
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