Robert Edgar

I am Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. I have written on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Venue Stories (2023). I am the co-lead of the Music Memoir Research Group and the Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group. My forthcoming publications include The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition.