EUP 75: Our Publishing in Language & Linguistics
Explore the journey of Language & Linguistics publishing at Edinburgh University Press from the 1990s to our latest releases.
W. B. Yeats’s late-career engagement with the Irish language poetry of dispossession
Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.
An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…
5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham
by G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare Alley. Beyond that, the only thing I knew when I started researching William Lindsay Gresham was that his ex-wife, Joy…
Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash
by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson Perhaps the greatest challenge facing US institutions of higher education is the tension between an increasingly diverse student body and an inherently (and inherited) homogenous curriculum. “Meeting today’s students where they are” is a…
Young Adults & War
How can literature for young adults and children help to foster lasting positive social change?
Three Unruly Natures that figure in the Ecology of Empire Writing
If Empire is, as Neel Ahuja suggests, a “project in the Government of species”, then it stands to reason that empire writing must either...
Relationality in Times of War
How do British and German cultural works establish relationality between Israel and Palestine?
A Nation Built on Books: The Role of Libraries in Modern Scotland
Scotland's National Librarian discusses the place of libraries in our cultural landscape.