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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 7d

NEW in our Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine series (edited by @drgavinmiller.bsky.social): Chloe R. Green examines how women’s experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness. Learn more at: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing...

Writing Contested Illness

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 7d

@sophiefranklin.bsky.social’s book on Violence and the Brontës is now available for purchase at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc... Learn more about the book in Sophie’s blog post below!

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · 7d

@juliamwright.bsky.social’s brilliant new book on Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic is now available! Visit our website to learn more and to purchase a copy for your library! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-thomas-...

Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 29d

"A bright future ahead of her in publishing..."

We’re pleased to announce that Elizabeth Fraser has been selected as one of the winners of the @alpsp.bsky.social Rising Star Awards 2025!

Congratulations 🎊

Elizabeth Fraser wins the ALPSP Rising Star Award

Elizabeth Fraser has been selected as one of the winners of the ALPSP Rising Star Awards 2025.

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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · Sep 5

A stellar lineup 🔥
Emma Holten ("Underskud"/"Deficit"), the authors Jonas Eika and Ursula Andkjær Olsen, the brilliant scholar @alirizataskale.bsky.social, and the locals ones: Emma Sofie Brogaard, Frederik Tygstrup and me

Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now it is time for the Cph book launch, a double whammy if you will!

"Finance Aesthetics" (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social) and "The Birth of the Financial Thriller" (@edinburghup.bsky.social)

Sep 23, at Uni of Cph, 3-6 pm.

Readings, conversations, wine!

Please come, no registration needed.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Sep 2

Look what arrived in the EUP office today! We're so excited to be holding these books in our hands! 😍

Meet the women who dared to defy the status quo in Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten. Haven't pre-ordered yet? There's still time! 👉 edin.ac/3DZZC1L

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Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten. Four hard copy books piled on a table in front of a houseplant.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new book - co-edited with Loïc Bourdeau - is now out with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30 if buying on the EUP site. Please ask your libraries to order this in, we’d really appreciate it!

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Do encourage your libraries to purchase this brilliant edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus!

Riya Das @drrd.bsky.social · Jul 11

My critical edition of Mona Caird's *The Daughters of Danaus* is now available for pre-order on the @edinburghup.bsky.social
website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-mona-ca...

Take 30% off with the discount code, NEW30

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

And the series here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-new-d...

New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, Queerness

<p>Dedicated to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice in Francophone studies, this series publishes cutting-edge scholarship in the field.</p> <p><br>This series publishes monographs and ed...

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Find out more about the collection here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic...

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

August also marks the publication of the second book in our New Directions in Francophone Studies series on Graphic Narratives of Resistance: Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinées (edited by Jennifer Boum Make and Charly Verstraet)

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

Read more and purchase the book at: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Aug 22

New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 18

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !

July 2026, Loughborough University.

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Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK

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Alice Keane @alicedkeane.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good afternoon! My wonderful co-editors and I are so excited as we approach the publication date for The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives. Just wanted to share that the volume is now available for preorder: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Jul 28

We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our publishing trainee. If you want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you!

For more information, check out the following:
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Publishing trainee - Edinburgh | Opportunities @ Creative Access

Closing date for applications: Sunday 24th August at 11.59pm Salary: National Living Wage Duration: 6 months Working hours: Mon-Fri, 35 hours (flexible sta

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're hiring!

EUP is looking for a Key Account Manager to join our busy Sales team. This full-time, permanent role focuses on developing relationships with institutional libraries across the Americas.

Find out more and apply 👉 edin.ac/4l2je5m

Vacancy: Key Account Manager - Americas

We are looking for a Key Account Manager - Americas to join the sales team for a full time, permanent contract.

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Jun 26

Do pop by for a chat and to grab a deal on our amazing collection of books and journals! @bsashakespeare.bsky.social

Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · Jun 25

EUP are at BSA 2025: ‘Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons’ 🎉 #BSA2025 @bsashakespeare.bsky.social

Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Emily Sharp, is at the EUP table! Head there to chat to Emily, browse our books & journals and pick up a conference deal 📚

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · May 23

My book, *Poetics of the Migrant*, is now out in paperback through @edinburghup.bsky.social. Use discount code PAPER30 for 30% off

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Ronnie Young @dr-ron.bsky.social · Apr 22

Hot off the press, the Spring issue of the Burns Chronicle just arrived!
Well done to guest editors Arun Sood and Corey Andrews for putting together this special issue on Robert Burns and America. 👍
@edinburghup.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social

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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · May 13

Alongside my new book #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 there are several free resources you can access to help spur your interest or research.
This little video outlines some of them 🎞️🎥🎭📻
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama
And the book's available here:
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · May 9

🎭 Shakespeare on the Radio is here! We're thrilled to share this fresh take on the Bard’s broadcast legacy by @audioandrea.bsky.social.

Grab your copy now with code NEW30 for 30% off: edin.ac/4m6CuzC

#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #NewRelease #Books

Shakespeare on the Radio

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Mar 22

It’s already been snapped up!

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Mar 21

@cmhep.bsky.social hoarding the RF shortbread as always

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Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social · Mar 20

@edinburghup.bsky.social have made it to Boston for #RSA2025 and #Shax2025! Join us at the booth at 5pm to browse our books and to raise a glass to our wonderful authors, editors and series editors!

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