CL Cole

236 Gregory Hall
(217) 244-1418
clcole - at - uiuc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa (Sociology of Culture)
Ph.D., University of Southern California (Sport Studies)

Affiliations

Associate Head of Media and Cinema Studies
Professor of Communication
Director of Media Studies
Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies
Professor in the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Faculty affiliate in African American Studies and Research Program; Sociology; and East Asian Studies

Course Specialties

Introduction to Queer Studies
Sport and Culture
TransBodies and Politics
Globalization and Sport

Background

Cole is the co-editor of "Women, Sport & Culture" (with Susan Birrell) and "Sport and Corporate Nationalisms" (with Michael Silk and David Andrews). She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled "Good Sports? The Boundaries of American Democracy." She is the co-editor of the SUNY book series (with Michael Messner), "Sport, Culture & Social Relations," and editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues. She serves on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies — Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Research in Sport & Exercise, and the NYU book series, "Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, & Health in the 21st Century." She is the recipient of one of the University of Illinois' Critical Research Initiative Awards and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Research/Creative Endeavor

Cole's interests include feminist cultural studies, critical sexuality and race studies, critical American Studies, sport and media studies, body studies, and ethnographic /interpretive methods.