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.

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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.

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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.

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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