📚 Happy World Book Day!
Reading is important on so many levels and it is our mission to connect people and ideas through publishing field- defining research across books and journals.
Revisit our blog post on our plans for the National Year of Reading!
And you can read John’s review in full here: doi.org/10.1080/0143...
Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays was named as a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. It’s published by @edinburghup.bsky.social You can find out more here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakesp...
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Well there’s no question that @edinburghup.bsky.social have done us some great covers. ‘Immersion’ is out today
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It's #InternationalWomensDay this week!
Delve into our free virtual issue of articles, blog posts and book chapters from #DeleuzeConnections.
This collection, exclusively authored by women, explores the intersection of Deleuzian philosophy and feminist/queer theory.
https://edin.ac/4aKZH6W
#IWD
Call for Editors!
The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.
Apply before 18:00, 13th March.
@edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social
The cover of the book "Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences: Underage Viewing Memories and Practices in 1980s United Kingdom" with an image from the movie POLTERGEIST of a girl sitting in front of a large TV, her hands both on the screen.
GenX Brits, get ready to revisit your night terrors, secret softcore, and video nasties. @ilovethatfilm.bsky.social's "Unsuitable Film & Video Audiences" revisits the memories of the first generation to grow up with home video. @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unsuita...
If you would like to learn more, Julian's new book analyses documentary representations of perpetrators and discusses why these representations matter.
Use discount code NEW30 for 30% off:
#OnTheBlog
After analysing over two-hundred documentaries, Julian Koch explains how genocidal 'perpetrators' are more complex than representational schemata of violent hatred and racism suggest...
Read it here:
#OnTheBlog
🐏 Explore James Hogg’s writings on Scottish rural life, tracing the loss of communal culture and the social tensions of modern sheep-farming.
A sneaky look at our forthcoming title, The Shepherd’s Guide, edited by Angus Sutherland and Alex Deans.
Recommend. Such a smart and fun look at the literary side of John Waters. With some Divine filth mixed in (in)appropriate doses. 🔥💩😋👀 #filmsky #booksky
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Our Critical Insights in American Studies series is looking for a new Co-Editor.
🗓 Deadline: March 13th
📍 Interviews at BAAS 2026 (Glasgow)
Interested in helping to shape the future of the series?
Details here:
Denise's book 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' argues that temporality and affect are critical dimensions of the proliferation of second-person narratives in the twenty-first century.
#ContemporaryLierature
🤓 New on our blog
Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.
Robin McAlpine says decades of new public management have reshaped Scotland’s universities, creating a leadership class which has left the sector overstretched, undemocratic and facing its worst crisis yet
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
@edinburghup.bsky.social
Looking for more?
⛓️ The full article examines the spaces where the bounds of criminality, the definition of punishment and the distinctions between English and #ScotsLaw, were played out...
Delve into the full article:
The editors of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social introduce their article on the #ScottishMartyrs.
The article was the runner-up in the SHR’s inaugural Early Career Researcher prize!
Sebastian Monteux and Linda Murdoch warn that rising emotional‑safety rules are changing how Scotland’s universities teach, regulate behaviour, and handle debate
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
@edinburghup.bsky.social
✨ We are at The Renaissance Society of America Conference (@rsaorg.bsky.social).
Drop by the EUP stand (211/213) to meet with Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, @emilysharp.bsky.social to discuss your next project and pick up a new book!
Here until the 21st!
#RenSA26
Their book, Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900, studies the shared artistic traditions of Scotland and Ireland, from the medieval to the modern.
#IrishArt #ScottishArt
Find out more:
Here is what the judges had to say about their book:
'Cutting across two nations and ‘Celtic’ and ‘Gaelic’ cultures, the essays are equally fascinating in the novel perspective they offer on nationalism, transnationalism, and sub and supranational identities in art history.'
🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam for winning the #HistoriansOfBritishArt Exemplary Multi-authored Book Award!
https://edin.ac/4rYxak0
Jonathan Hearn and Gale Macleod warn that universities are losing the intellectual toughness and open debate that once defined higher education
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
@edinburghup.bsky.social
🎨 Explore the virtually forgotten story of pioneering educator and influential artist William Johnstone.
Pre-order your copy (you can get 30% off with code NEW30 😉):
📚 New on the blog!
Beth Williamson discusses her research on the story of pioneering educator and influential artist, #WilliamJohnstone.
Delve into the post:
This week, The Herald is collaborating with Scottish Affairs - Scotland’s longest running journal on contemporary political and social issues - published by @edinburghup.bsky.social
Here, Sebastian Monteux and Jane Fenton introduce our week-long collaboration
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
Thank you @heraldscotland.bsky.social for this piece!
Once you are done reading this fascinating article on #ScottishEducation, head on over to the new #ScottishAffairs issue for more...
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#VirtualIssue
This eclectic issue illustrates the breadth and character of #TheInnesReview.
Delve into articles exploring working conditions for Catholic teachers, the Marist brothers, and more!
Free to access until 31st July.
Explore this free-to-read virtual issue from the #JournalOfScottishPhilosophy
Includes discussions on influential thinkers like Pufendorf, Mandeville and Hutcheson, exploring their ideas on moral emotions and their impact on #ScottishEnlightenment thought.
Check it out:
Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance explores the links between patronage, identity and Franco-Scottish relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.
👏 Special 30% discount for the paperback: use code PAPER30
