Will Straw

Will Straw is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. He is a past President of the Canadian Communication Association and a recipient of the David Thomson Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision at McGill University. Dr. Straw is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 1950s America (2006) and of the forthcoming Nights in Fairyland: Gossip, Blackmail and the Many Lives of Broadway Brevities (2025). He is the author of over 200 articles on film, media, music and cities, and co-editor of over 20 volumes, including Circulation and the City, Formes urbaines, Night Studies and the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Night Time Economy. Dr. Straw’s current research and public engagement centre on the night-time culture of cities and the ways in which this culture is governed, practiced and represented. [Source: VOX, 2025]