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Experiencing the Edinburgh festivals as an intern

20 October, 2022

English Literature student Susanna Demelas tells us about spending the summer working on some of…

The Film Dispatch: The story continues

26 August, 2022

We sat down with online student-run magazine The Film Dispatch to catch up on their first six…

Lifting the veil on poetry

29 June, 2022

Patrick Errington talks about his Emerging Writers Award win and helping his students find their…

From Arthur's Seat – encouraging diverse voices

21 June, 2022

Vidisha Ghosh and Olivia Thomakos, Editors-in-Chief of Volume Seven of our Creative Writing…

English Literature research rated world-leading and internationally excellent

12 May, 2022

Over 90 per cent of our English Literature research has been classed as world-leading and…

Modern languages research ranked 3rd in the UK

12 May, 2022

We have been rated 3rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of our…

Judging the James Tait Black Prizes 2022: Céleste Callen

25 April, 2022

PhD in English Literature candidate Céleste Callen shares her experiences of being a Student Reader…

Meet our graduates: JD Stewart

22 April, 2022

Dramatist and podcaster JD Stewart completed our MSc in Playwriting in 2020 and was one of the…

Meet our graduates: Mark Bradshaw

20 April, 2022

Project Manager at Screen Language, Mark is a Translation Studies graduate whose dissertation led…

Embracing ambiguity – BAFTSS shortlisting for Teaching Fellow in Film Studies

18 April, 2022

We talk to Hoi Lun Law about being BAFTSS-shortlisted for Best First Monograph and how our students…