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Stijn Reijnders
Stijn Reijnders is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the relation between media culture, popular heritage and tourism. He has published in, amongst others, Media, Culture & Society, European Journal for Communication, Cultural Geographies, Ethnologia Europeae, Area and European Journal for Cultural Studies. In 2006, he finished his Ph.D., entitled 'Holland op de Helling. Televisieamusement, volkscultuur en ritueel vermaak'/'Holland on the slide. Television entertainment,
folklore and ritual', which was awarded the national Dissertation Award by the Netherlands School of Communications Research. Currently, Reijnders is working on a new project, funded by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), focusing on media tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or TV series.
In 2011, he published his second monograph, entitled Places of the Imagination. Media, Tourism, Culture (Ashgate).