Recent research and activities

This project examines the close links between theatre, democracy and citizenship through a series of action-based research activities focussed round Euripides’ play The Bacchae.

The Bacchae Project

This project presents a pioneering means to link the people of Orkney and Shetland with the history of their literature, and represent Orkney and Shetland writing world-wide.

Writing the North website

Producing a scholarly edition of a recently-discovered account of Ben Jonson’s epic walk between London and Edinburgh in the summer of 1618.

Ben Jonson’s Walk to Scotland

In June 2013, Sir David Lindsay’s 'Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis' was performed in its entirety for the first time in over 450 years at Linlithgow Palace.

Staging and Representing the Scottish Renaissance Court

This project undertakes research in 19th century Scottish studies and fosters public awareness of the diversity of Scottish writing.

Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century

This project will make available for the first time all of Stevenson’s works in a modern scholarly form.

Edinburgh Stevenson Edition website

In 2012, the department celebrated its 250th anniversary. The occasion was marked with exhibitions, events, talks, readings and seminars.

In February the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities played host to over 30 academics from Edinburgh and further afield, who gathered to explore landscape as a locus of hope

This collaborative project staged a performance of John Heywood’s Play of the Weather in Hampton Court Palace’s Great Hall in 2009.

Staging the Henrician Court website

This series of talks in 2011, organised by SWINC, introduced members of the public to the process of textual editing.

What are you Reading?

A series of events highlighting the relationship between Edinburgh’s prestigious literary community and its unique contributions to the history of medicine.

Dissecting Edinburgh

Marianne Boruch, Professor of English at Purdue University, led a public reading of poems from her collection Cadaver, Speak while working on the idea of poetry and diagnosis.

An exhibition and web feature created with the National Library of Scotland to explore the world-class Shakespeare collections held at NLS and the University of Edinburgh.

Beyond Macbeth

STAR's mission is to provide a focus for international circumatlantic research with a Scottish dimension.

The STAR Project

This network brings together researchers interested in the relationship between the arts and humanities, and biomedical understanding of the human.

Medical Humanities website