The Edinburgh University Press Podcast

The Edinburgh University Press Podcast

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Interviews with authors of Edinburgh UP books.

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

February 3, 2026

Changing Scotland

David McCrone
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, a…

Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

January 31, 2026

Martialling Peace

Nicole Wegner
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeepi…

Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

January 26, 2026

Traces of the Prophets

Adam Bursi
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Adam Bursi’s Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Edinburg University Press, 2024) uses writings by early Muslims to map a…

Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

December 12, 2025

Marvel, DC and US Security

Julian Schmid
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Edinburgh UP, 2025) by Dr. Julian Schmid considers how…

Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

October 13, 2025

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

Madeleine Chalmers
Hosted by Gina Stamm

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, wh…

Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, "The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

October 13, 2025

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen
Hosted by Michael Motia

This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the…

Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

August 30, 2025

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

Daisy Livingston
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. In Managing Paper…

Intercultural Communication

August 26, 2025

Intercultural Communication

Ingrid Piller

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her bes…

Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

July 12, 2025

Irish Shame

Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente
Hosted by Helen Penet

The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame Offers an anatomy of Irish shame as a cultural predicamentCombines t…

Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

June 6, 2025

Poetics of the Migrant

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English and American Studies Kevin Potter
Hosted by Pavan Mano

Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on cla…

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

May 28, 2025

Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Hosted by Helen Penet

Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 (Edinburgh UP, 2024) studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these po…

Daniel Behar, "Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

May 14, 2025

Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Daniel Behar
Hosted by Tugrul Mende

Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity (Edinburgh UP, 2025) examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria Cl…

Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

April 7, 2025

Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

Benjamin M. Studebaker

Liberal democracies don’t age gracefully. Established systems of governance like those of the UK and the US which once served as blueprints are today …

Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

April 4, 2025

African Literature and US Empire

Katherine Hallemeier
Hosted by Arnab Dutta Roy

African Literature and US Empire Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024) demonstrates how African literature …

Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

April 3, 2025

Choose Your Bearing

Benjamin P. Davis

Benjamin P. Davis’s Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinburgh University Press 2025) provides one of the f…

Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

March 17, 2025

The President's Kill List

Luca Trenta
Hosted by Susan Liebell

Investigative reporter Bob Woodward once noted that assassination was the Scarlett letter of American politics because targeted killings challenge the…

Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

March 14, 2025

Girls' Hairstories

Fiona Handyside
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen’s Power Plait to JoJo Siwa’s outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlh…

Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

February 1, 2025

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time

Amanda Lagji
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) by Dr. Amanda Lagji reveals the fundamental, constitutive r…

Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

January 25, 2025

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

Petya Andreeva

Across Iron Age Central Eurasia, non-sedentary people created, viewed, and considered animal-style imagery, creating designs replete with feline bodie…

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, "Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation, and the Audience" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

December 16, 2024

Qur'ānic Stories

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen’s book Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) provides excellent analyses of sever…