Edgar, Robert

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Edgar, Robert

Email:

r.edgar@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

York St John University Lord Mayor's Walk York YO23 1NG

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Homepage:

https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/staff-profiles/rob-edgar.php

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Expertise:

Scriptwriting, Film Adaptation, Popular Music Memoirs, Folk Horror and the Eerie, Theories of Comedy, Adaptation, Genre Writing, Film Theory, Uncanny, Music Venues, Hauntology

Job title:

Professor of Writing and Popular Culture

Biography:

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture 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), Film Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury 2019), Venue Stories (Equinox 2023) and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (Bloomsbury 2023), and The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2024), and Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television (Bloomsbury 2024).

Qualifications:

BA, PhD, SFHEA

My Latest

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) “Mohawk this guy”: New York Wyrd. In: American Folk Horror. University of Wales Press (In Press)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) Monitoring as developmental practice in the supervision of PhD students. In: Innovative Approaches to Doctoral Supervision: Selected Case Studies. Edward Elgar (In Press)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) ‘If a bunch of ‘em tell you, it must be true.’: Lonely Boy, The Sex Pistols and Adaption. In: The Routledge Companion to the Sex Pistols. Routledge (Submitted)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2025) Graphically Speaking: CUD, Graphic Memoir, Indie Authenticity, and Autofiction. In: Rereading Musicians And Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies. Bloomsbury Academic (In Press)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John (2025) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Manchester University Press (In Press)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Hinterlands and SPAs: Folk Horror and Neoliberal Desolation. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Johnson, Wayne, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Unsuitable for Miners: Trauma in contemporary British mining narratives. In: Haunted Landscapes, 4-6 July 2023, Falmouth University. (Unpublished)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Smith, Alan (2023) Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition: Darkness in the Fields 2. In: Darkness in the Fields 2, 23/06/23, Online. (Unpublished)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Folk Horror. In: Leeds Salon, 21st June 2023, Carriageworks Leeds. (Unpublished)
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2022) British folk horror, hauntology and the terrifying nature of the ordinary. The Conversation.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror	432
2	Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television	247
3	Music, Memory and Memoir	233
4	The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop	230
5	Science fiction for survival	213	1
6	Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre	210	194
7	The Language of Film	175	3
8	Alan Garner and the Work of Time	169
9	Venue Stories From Backroom to Rave Room, from the Toilet Circuit to the Town Hall	166
10	Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition	140