The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.
Edinburgh University Press
The Global Sphere of Academia: Writing in a Second Language
By Alex Oxford As Chris discussed on the blog in March, Early Career Researchers are often thrust headfirst into the cycle of ‘publish or perish’ with varying amounts of guidance. Especially in the face of new policies on Open Access,…
Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry
The work and life of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) were, in Bill Clinton’s words, a gift to the world: ‘His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives.’
Richard III, Thomas More and ‘Jane’ Shore: A royal mistress and a royal mystery
by Tim Thornton The Princes in the Tower The discovery of King Richard III’s body under a Leicester carpark in 2012 revitalised the public’s attention to one of the most controversial figures in British history, and to the mysteries surrounding…
Introducing From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is our Mother. Rumi These words echo down through the ages from when Mevlana (”Our Master”) Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273), first…
Margaret McGowan: A Tribute
by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team – Margaret McGowan and Clement Crisp, who had each been with the journal since its inception forty years ago. I have…
Q&A with Beth Rigel Daugherty
Q&A with EUP author Beth Rigel Daugherty about her research project and two new books about the life and works of Viginia Woolf
Q & A with the author of Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton
by Michael Lee Tell us a bit about your book… Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton offers interpretive analyses of Val Lewton’s horror films as seen through the lens of the music within them. Lewton, who both produced…
All Stories Run on Two Tracks:What Formalism Offers Presentism
EUP author Katherine Voyles discusses the process around writing a double review for the Victoriographies Journal.
Q&A: Work Experience at Edinburgh University Press
By Beth Cowen What brought you to EUP, and why?I am a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, as part of the Scottish Graduate School for Humanities (SGSAH), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). During the…