Leslie McMurtry is a Lecturer in Radio Studies at the University of Salford. Her work on audio drama has been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Palgrave Communications, and the Journal of Radio & Audio Media, and she has been interviewed by The Atlantic online and The Independent.
Particular areas of interest are gender, race/ethnicity and radio; podcasts; Gothic/horror audio drama; dialect and Anglo-American relations; transmedia of audio drama (comics, silent film); empirical experiments on imagery generation through aural drama; film/television sound.
I also write about fan studies (particularly Doctor Who and fanzines); Gothic horror; Victorian literature/culture; and the American Revolution.