Alana N. Seaman, Ph.D.

Alana Seaman is an Assistant Professor of Recreation, Sports Leadership, and Tourism Management at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her Ph.D. in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management from Clemson University where her dissertation research examined the connections between literature, place, and tourist performance (or what people ‘do’ while traveling). Today her research interests are still focused on the links between popular culture (particularly literature, film, and television) and tourism, heritage tourism, semiotics, place-making, tourist performance, and humanistic geography. Her recent research has been published in the Journal of Environmental Studies & Sciences and The Sport Journal, and she was also recently appointed Secretary/Treasurer of the Media & Communications Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.