College of Media

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

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.