COLLECTIONS OF PAPERS BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ: A CELEBRATORY REVIEW

The purpose of this text is to make a review of the collections of papers published by the Faculty of Philosophy of Niš University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of English Studies as a unit of this higher education institution in Serbia. It presents an overview of the six volumes of paper collections that were published in the period between 1980 and 2007, and attempts to highlight the most significant contributions and authors that form part of this three-decade long tradition. The overview includes a reference to the papers published, their authors, as well as a discussion of the most prevalent traits and/or contributions of the individual papers, focusing on the most influential ones. This paper, written as a celebratory retrospective of one area of the activities of the department, is primarily meant to emphasise the place and role these publications have had in the transition of the department from a newly-established organisational section to a well-known scholarly collective with a half-century long tradition of noted scientific effort and quality education of sought-after professional Anglicists.