Presentation of the CRESAB

(Centre for the Study of American, British and English-Speaking Societies and Cultures)

Created in 1978, the CRESAB is a group of English teachers composed of university lecturers and professors, both active and retired, and post-graduate students, most of whom live in the Nancy-Metz area. Although there are currently no secondary school teachers among the membership, they too are welcome to join. The CRESAB is associated with the other research teams - literature, cultural studies, linguistics - of the English Department of the University of Nancy 2 (France) within a confederation called Interdisciplinarité dans les Etudes anglophones (IDEA, ex-Centre d'études anglophones). Originally, in addition to their individual fields of research, the team collectively pursued applied research into the pedagogy of British and American Studies, as well as the teaching of the cultures of other English-speaking countries. In keeping with the interdisciplinary goals of IDEA, the team now addresses the question of nationalism and national identity in the English-speaking world and organizes, among other things, seminars and conferences on the subject.
The CRESAB began publishing its review Living Archives in March 1991. Its purpose was to put research in the civilization of English-speaking countries at the disposal of a wide academic and educational readership. Most of the issues published between November 1991 and October 2006 are still available and can be ordered from our postal address (see below). Two issues (from September 2000 until the end of 2001) are available free on line. Complementary documents for published articles are available at: <http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/CEAA/CRESAB/LAdocs.html>. Since the review has ceased publication, the CRESAB has decided to publish on a regular basis collections of articles derived from papers given at its conferences and its seminars.

Individual research by CRESAB members includes the following areas: the political and economic institutions of the United Kingdom, the United States and several other English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, South Africa); ethnic minorities in the English-speaking world; the world of work; trade unionism; social classes and problems in the United Kingdom and the United States; the arts in Great Britain; the history of women and of the feminist movement in India; education in the English-speaking world; society and culture in certain Commonwealth countries.

Postal address: CRESAB, Université de Nancy 2, B.P. 33-97, F-54015 Nancy CEDEX.

Index of Living Archives articles (Nov. 1991-Jan. 2000) by country (AUS, CAN, IND, IRL, NZ, SA, UK, USA)
Order form (individuals)//Institutional order form