Founded in 1949, Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK.
EUP's books enjoy the highest academic standards, approved by a committee of Edinburgh academics after a full peer review process. They combine original, cutting-edge research with first-rate editorial and production values to produce works of lasting importance.
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Subject Areas
EUP publishes across a wide range of subject areas, including:
Subject Area | Description |
|---|---|
Ancient History & Classical Studies | Combines core historical research with cutting-edge, interdisciplinary work |
Art & Visual Culture | Beautiful books and reflective practice – this is a new area of focus for the press |
Film & Television Studies | Internationally renowned for its dynamic and innovative books, with an extensive author base in North America |
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | One of their flagship lists, publishing a broad range of books across history, religion, politics and culture |
Law | Responding to the most challenging and pressing legal questions facing us today, in a range of formats from research monograph to reference to textbook |
Language & Linguistics | Combines a strong tradition in textbook publishing with innovative research |
Literary Studies | A broad-ranging list with specialisms in Modernism, Shakespeare & Renaissance literature, and Scottish literature |
Philosophy | Provocative and adventurous books across a wide range of philosophical disciplines with a strong focus on Continental philosophy |
Politics & International Relations | Their books span the globe and feature some of the world’s most valued political scientists, philosophers, and thinkers |
Scottish Studies | An eclectic portfolio with topics ranging from archaeology to geography, history to cultural studies, politics to the Scottish diaspora |
Highlights
The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2024
Winner, International Gothic Association: Justin D. Edwards Prize for an Edited Collection 2024
Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena.
Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and his Historical Project
Winner, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize 2023
Recounts the life of Egypt’s greatest historian, analyses his work and assesses its impact then and now.
Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film
Winner, Janovics Center Award for Best Book 2023
A critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas.
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright Year Collections
Year | Type | Title Count |
|---|---|---|
2026 | Frontlist | 335 |
2023-2025 | Recent Frontlist | 845 |
2020-2022 | Contemporary I | 748 |
2017-2019 | Contemporary II | 637 |
2014-2016 | Contemporary III | 504 |
2000-2013 | Backfile | 1,284 |
Pre-2000 | Archive | 1600 |
