Gender and Women's Studies

CL Cole

Dr. Cole is a Professor of Advertising and Consumer Studies; Sociology; and Gender & Women's Studies. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, queer studies, body studies (race, gender and sexuality), national popular culture, and interpretive and ethnographic methods.

 Education

1992          Ph.D., University of Iowa, Independently Designed, Interdisciplinary Degree: Sociology of Culture (Concentrations: American Studies, Women's Studies)

1987          Ph.D., University of Southern California, Sport Studies (Concentrations: Work and Organizations, Gender)

1983          M.S., University of Southern California

1979          B.S., West Chester State College, with honors

                                   

 Academic Employment

2006-                       Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies Program; Department of Advertising; Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory; Faculty Affiliate: African American Studies & Research Program; Cultural Studies & Interpretive Research; East Asian Studies; Kinesiology/Community Health; Sociology; Science, Technology, Information & Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005-2006                 Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies; Kinesiology/Community Health; Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, UIUC

2005-                       Affiliate Faculty, East Asian Studies, UIUC

2003-2004                Acting Director, Gender & Women’s Studies Program, UIUC

2003-                       Affiliate Faculty, African American Studies & Research Program, UIUC

2000                        Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

1999-2005                 Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Kinesiology, UIUC

1999-                        Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, UIUC

1995-                        Faculty, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, UIUC

1993-1998                 Affiliate Faculty, Women’s Studies, UIUC

1993-1999                 Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, UIUC

1990-1994                 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

1988                         Adjunct Assistant Professor, American Studies (Continuing Education Program), University of Iowa

1984-1990              Graduate Instructor, Women’s Studies Program, Sport Studies, University of Iowa,

1987                         Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communications, Drake University

1979-1984              Graduate Instructor, Study of Women and Men in Society, Sport Studies, University of Southern California

 

 Selected Publications 

 Books

 

Exercising Power: Athletic Bodies in Public Space, CL Cole & G. Farred, eds., SUNY Press, expected 2007.

Sport and Corporate Nationalisms, M. Silk, D. Andrews,  & CL Cole, eds., Oxford: Berg Press, 2005.

Women, Sport & Culture, S. Birrell & CL Cole, eds., Human Kinetics Press, 1994.              

 

 Articles

“Bounding American Democracy: Sport, Sex and Race.”  In N. Denzin & M. Giardina (Eds.). Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent: Cultural Studies after 9/11 (pp. 152-166).  Boulder:  Paradigm Press, 2006

“American Fantasies: Enchanted Sporting Bodies and Sex Testing.” Imeros, 5, 1, 257-266, 2005.

“Michel Foucault: Studies of Power and Sport.” In Richard Gullianatti, (Ed.). Sport and Modern Social Theorists (pp. 207-224)  London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. (Cole, Giardina, & Andrews)

 “Renee Richards.” In Marc Stein (Ed), Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

“The New Politics of Urban Consumption: Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and Sneakers.” In Ralph Wilcox, David L. Andrews, and Robert Pitter, (Eds.). Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures (pp. 221-247). Albany: SUNY Press, 2003. (Cole & King)

“Playing the Quota Card.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 27, 2, 88-99, 2002.

“Nike’s America / America’s Michael Jordan.” In D.L. Andrews (Ed.), Michael Jordan, Inc.  Corporate Sport, Media Culture and Late modern America (pp. 65-106). Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.

“Close Encounters: Sport, Science, and Political Culture.” In Toby Miller (Ed.). Basil Blackwell Companion Reader in Cultural Studies (pp. 341-356). Oxford: Blackwell Pubs Ltd., 2001.

“Containing AIDS:  Magic Johnson & [Post]Reagan America.” In Delroy Constantine-Simms, (Ed.). The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Culture. London: Alyson. (Reprint), 2001. Lambda Literary Award for Best Non Fiction Anthology.

“America’s New Son: Tiger Woods and America’s Multiculturalism.”Cultural Studies: A Research Annual, 5, 107-122.  JAI Press, 2000. (Cole & Andrews)

“One Chromosome Too Many?”  In Kay Schaffer and Sidone Smith, (Eds.). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics and the Games (pp. 128-146). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

"Performative Cultures: Sport, Masculinity & Consumption.” Masculinities, 6,1, 319-327, 1999. (Cole & Andrews)

"Addiction, Exercise, Cyborgs: Technologies of Deviant Bodies." In G. Rail, (Ed.). Sport and Postmodern Culture (261-276).  Albany, New York: SUNY, 1998.

"Celebrity Feminism:  Nike Style  (Post-fordism, Transcendence, & Consumer Power)." Sociology of Sport Journal, 12, 347-360, 1995. (Cole & Hribar)

 Work in Progress

Good Sports? The Boundaries of American Democracy.  (book manuscript)

 Courses Taught

Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies; Introduction to Queer Studies; Body Politics; Consumer Culture, Fitness & Sport; Globalization & Sport; Modern Sport/Post-Civil Rights America; Sociology of Sport; Transgender Bodies and Politics; Social Theory; Sociology of Gender and Sexuality: Introduction to Women’s Studies; Introduction to Sociology; Class, Race & Sex; Motherhood: Ideology & Experience; American Values

 

Graduate Courses

Transgender Bodies and Politics; Masculinities: Bodies/Subjectivities; Body / Gender / Culture; Cultural Studies on Racism & Sport; Globalization & Sport; Health & Promotional Cultures; Feminist Theory; Foucault, Feminism & Queer Theory; Body, Culture & Power; Feminism, Postmodernism & Science; The Social-Historical Construction of Sexuality in the US; AIDS, Sexuality & the Social Body; The Sex Debates