Robert Edgar is an Associate Professor in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University. His teaching specialisms include scriptwriting, memoir and genre fiction. He has published on Screenwriting (AVA 2009), Directing Fiction (AVA 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury 2019) and Film Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury 2019). Ongoing research and creative projects include writing sound, writing the eerie and indie music memoirs.