Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist based in the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick. Her areas of research and publications include ethnomusicological theory and practice, popular music and culture studies, performance studies, urban soundscape studies (with particular specialisations in ethnicity and performed identity, nostalgia and cultural intimacy, and applied critical theory). Aileen is co-editor (with Eoin Devereux and Martin Power) of Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities (Intellect, 2011).