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Jennifer Metz
Lecturer
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University of Iowa
Dept. of Health and Sport Studies
E112 Field House
Iowa City, IA 52242-1111
319-335-9940 voice/ jennifer-metz@uiowa.edu
Interests
- Sport and the media
- Race and gender in sports
- Feminist cultural studies
- Qualitative/ethnographic methodologies
My work critically examines the cultural politics of race, gender, and nationalism in the modern era. It is interdisciplinary in nature, located at the intersections of popular culture, marketing/advertising, and cultural studies. It is motivated by the recognition that such "everyday practices” as sport, television, and recreational pursuits are crucial to understanding the production of power, knowledge, and identity in a globalizing world.
More specifically, my research focuses on issues related to the study of sport, feminism, and popular media. It interrogates the racializiation and sexualization of "motherhood" in late-capitalist sport, particularly women's basketball. It negotiates the tension between heterosocial normativity and the politics of the body in advertising and marketing campaigns. I am also interested in the production, representation and performance of gender in leisure pursuits with my interests ranging from women’s fitness choices to hypermasculinity in sports as it relates to “proper" forms of male athletic prowess, fatherhood and sexuality.
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 2005
Sociocultural Kinesiology
M.A. Northern Illinois University, DeKelb, IL 1998
Communications
B.A. Loyola University of Chicago, IL 1996
Communications.
Selected Publications
Jennifer L. Metz. (In press). "Tracing the script: Emotional Interviewing as an Ethnographic Experience." Qualitative Inquiry. Special Issue titled "Sporting [Auto]-Ethnographies."
Karen Alston and Jennifer L. Metz. (In press). "Present, Yet Unaccounted For: Black Fatherhood as a Trope in Post-integration Elite Sport." In C.L.Cole & G. Farred (Eds.), Exercising Power: Athletic Bodies in Public Space. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Jennifer L Metz. (2008). "An Inter-View on Motherhood: Racial Politics and Motherhood in Late Capitalist Sport." Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies.
Jennifer L. Metz. (2007). "Learning to be a Star: Childhood Sport Experiences of WNBA mothers." In M D. Giardina & M. K. Donnelly (Eds.), Youth Culture & Sport: Identity, Power, & Politics. London: Routledge.
Michael D. Giardina and Jennifer L. Metz. (2005). "Women's Sports in Nike's America: Body Politics and the Corporo-empowerment of 'Everyday Athletes.'" In S. J. Jackson & D. L. Andrews (Eds.), Sport, Culture, and Advertising: Identities, Commodities, and the Politics of Representation (pp. 60-82). London: Routledge.
Michael D. Giardina and Jennifer L. Metz. (2005). "All-American Girls? National Identity and Cultural Citizenship with/in the W*USA." In M. Silk, D. L. Andrews, and C. L. Cole (Eds.), Corporate Nationalism(s): Sport, Cultural Identity, and Transnational Marketing (pp. 109-126). Oxford: Berg.
Jennifer L. Metz. (2004). "What I would say if I was dying?" Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 27(1), 339-346.
Michael D. Giardina and Jennifer L. Metz (2001). "Olympic marketing and the homogenization of multiculturalism." International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 3(2), 203-221.
Michael D. Giardina and Jennifer L. Metz. (2001). "TV You Do": Disney-style interactivity and the corporo-empowerment of American tweens. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture.
Courses Taught at the University of Iowa
- Sport and the Media
- Women, Sport and Culture
- Inequality in Sport
- 20th Century Sport
