Edgar, Robert

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Name:

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 (2026) Hauntology examines how what happened in the past – and what didn’t – informs the present. The Conversation.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Misplaced Childhood. In: Mann, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0682-8944, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Turntable Stories: Narratives, Memories, and Histories from In-between the Grooves. Equinox
Mann, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0682-8944, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Pleasance, Helen, eds. (2026) Turntable Stories: Narratives, Memories, and Histories from In-between the Grooves. Equinox
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Raby Road. The Ghastling, 24.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Strandloper, Treacle Walker and Unified Field Theory. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John, (eds.) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Twenty-First Century Perspectives . Manchester University Press, pp. 143-153
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Strandloper, Treacle Walker and Unified Field Theory. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John, (eds.) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Twenty-First Century Perspectives . Manchester University Press, pp. 143-153
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Encountering Holmes: Adaptation, Appropriation and Cultural Memory. In: Trifles: a quarterly for devotees of Sherlock Holmes. Vol.1, Issue 3. Foolscap and Quill
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2026) Liquid Realism: Hauntology, Lack, and Mourning as Method. Open Philosophy, 9 (1). p. 20250116.
Pleasance, Helen, Mann, Fraser ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0682-8944 and Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2025) John Lewis Christmas advert reveals music as a time machine that creates connection. The Conversation.
Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2025) The Wandspringer. Colorado, Foolscap and Quill

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror	629
2	Alan Garner and the Work of Time	504
3	Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television	464
4	Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre	441	276
5	Science fiction for survival	404	1
6	Music, Memory and Memoir	400
7	The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop	373
8	Venue Stories: Narratives, Memories, and Histories from Britain’s Independent Music Spaces	369
9	The Language of Film	347	3
10	Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition	339