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CL Cole
Department Head; Professor of Media & Cinema Studies and Gender & Women's Studies
119 Gregory Hall
clcole@illinois.edu
PhD, University of Southern California
PhD, University of Iowa
Professor of Media and Cinema Studies
Professor of Communications
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
New Media Literacy
Sport & Documentary
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
Professor Cole was recently on sabbatical and worked with Chicago's Beyondmedia Education, a non-profit, media-based social justice organization that works with underserved girls and women.