Katherine McLeod (PhD, U of Toronto) is a scholar, audio maker, and dancer. She researches archives, performance, and poetry, and produces research and research-creation across media. She is the principal investigator of her SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Literary Radio: New Approaches to Audio Research” (2021-2026).

Dr. McLeod is a co-applicant of SpokenWeb, a SSHRC-funded partnership project for which she is the Managing Editor of SPOKENWEBLOG, and supervises and mentors Concordia students working on audio collections. She produces the monthly audio series ShortCuts for The SpokenWeb Podcast.

Dr. McLeod was the 2020-2021 Researcher-in-Residence at the Concordia University Library with her project, Listening to the Library.

She is an academic, educator, dancer, and editor – always near rivers, having grown up in Queensborough, B.C., and now living in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.