CL Cole, Professor
Contact Information
236 Gregory Hall
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-244-1418
Email: clcole@illinois.edu
About
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 - Present: 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 - Present: Affiliate Faculty, East Asian Studies, UIUC
- 2003 - 2004: Acting Director, Gender & Women’s Studies Program, UIUC
- 2003 - Present: 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 - Present: Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, UIUC
- 1995 - Present: 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)
Works 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