Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

Nicky van Es?is currently a lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Next to teaching within the?International Bachelor of Arts & Culture Studies,?he co-founded the MA programme?Place, Culture & Tourism?(2018). In addition, he is working towards finalizing his dissertation (exp. 2020) on literary tourism as part of the?Locating Imagination?project, funded by the Dutch Science Foundation.?Amongst his published research articles are Chasing Sleuths (Annals of Tourism Research, 2016)?and Capital Crime Cities (European Journal of Cultural Studies,?2016),?several?book chapters and?he is the?main editor of the upcoming edited volume Locating Imagination in Popular Culture (Routledge, exp. 2020).???Stijn?Reijnders?is Full Professor of Cultural Heritage, in Particular in Relation to Tourism and Popular Culture at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His?research? focuses?on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Currently he leads two large, international research projects:?Worlds of Imagination, funded by the European Research Council, and?Locating Imagination?funded by the Dutch Science Foundation. He has published many research papers and has co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures (2014), Film Tourism in Asia: Evolution, Transformation and Trajectory (2017) and Locating Imagination: Place, Tourism and Belonging in Popular Culture (exp. 2020).??Leonieke Bolderman is Assistant Professor Cultural Geography and Tourism Geography and Planning at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research concerns the role of music, heritage and tourism in urban and regional development. She has published the monograph?Contemporary Music Tourism: A Theory of Musical Topophilia?(Routledge, 2020), while her co-edited collection?Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging?(Routledge) will be published late 2020.Abby Waysdorf is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the CADEAH project, researching how individuals and groups?reappropriate?and recirculate audiovisual heritage materials. She did a research master at Utrecht University in Media and Performance Studies, with a specialty in sport media and fandom, and her PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where her dissertation,?Placing Fandom, focused on film tourism and fan use of place. Her general research interests are audience practices and uses of media, fandom, the television industry, and how?all of?these things intersect.????