Abby Waysdorfمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Dr. Abby Waysdorf serves as Assistant Professor in Media and Performance Studies within the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities. She teaches in the Cultural Information Sciences (CIW) and Media and Culture Studies (MCW) bachelor's programs, focusing on audience-media interactions and fan cultures. Her educational trajectory includes a Research Master in Media and Performance Studies from Utrecht University (specializing in sport media and fandom), a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam centered on Placing Fandom (examining film tourism and fan-place relationships), and postdoctoral research with Utrecht's CADEAH project investigating audiovisual heritage reappropriation. Waysdorf's research explores audience practices through three interconnected lenses: fandom dynamics (Eurovision, military content, historical fandom), spatial media experiences (film tourism, place attachment, fan pilgrimage), and digital heritage appropriation (audiovisual archive reuse, remix culture, participatory curation). Her work bridges media studies, cultural geography, and heritage science, emphasizing how fans transform media through place-based practices and digital engagement. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2020-2023) reveals evolving trends: increasing focus on European digital heritage curation (2022-2023), methodological expansion into vaporwar/military fandom (2022), and sustained investigation of film tourism's relationship to imagination and belonging (2020-2021). Key thematic clusters include fan-driven heritage personalization, spatial narratives in media consumption, and the tension between institutional expertise and user-led archive appropriation. Academic engagement includes organizing the 2021 European History Reloaded Symposium, presenting at the Fan Studies Network North America Conference (2020), and contributing to CADEAH project meetings (2019). Her invited talks address archival reuse cultures (2021), Eurovision fandom's archival identity (2021), and audiovisual heritage circulation tracking (2019), demonstrating active knowledge exchange with heritage institutions and fan studies communities.





