All posts by Matt Ventresca
New Music Alert: Roots Under Stone
Roots Under Stone by Gail Hawkins (feat. yours truly) is out now! The new single from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario singer-songwriter Gail Hawkins was self-released and is available to stream everywhere! I am honoured to have contributed some lead guitar, bass, and backing vocals to this song – as well as working with Gail on production and…
Event Alert: Toronto Book Launch
A Double Book Event with Samantha King and Gavin Weedon TORONTO! Come check out this very exciting event on Monday, May 11th at 6pm at the Centre for Social Innovation. I’ll be alongside Samantha King and Gavin Weedon who just published the amazing book, Protein: The Making of a Nutritional Superstar. We’ll be chatting about our…
Publication Alert: Analysis of Long COVID in Pro Sports
The Debilitating Discourses of Long COVID: The Public Pedagogies of Sporting Bodies This book chapter, co-authored with Dr. Mary McDonald (Georgia Tech) is now published in the new book Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives – a collection of diverse scholarly work edited by Dr. Deborah Lupton (University of New South Wales). As part of…
My Podcast Debut!
Headfirst – A Concussion Podcast Alongside my illustrious co-author Dr. Kate Henne, I was a guest on the Headfirst Concussion Podcast, hosted by Reece Granger. Across our nearly hour-long conversation, we covered a lot a ground: contested definitions of concussion, repetitive head impacts, and CTE; tensions between biopsychosocial models and qualitative research; functionalist paradigms in…
Violent Impacts is out now!!!
Violent Impacts is out with University of California Press Written with my brilliant colleague Dr. Kate Henne (The Australian National University), this book is the culmination of a decade of research into the sociocultural, political, and economic dimensions of the concussion crisis. And now it has finally dropped! Kate and I are so excited to…
Publication Alert: Understanding Emotion in Concussion Media
Mixed feelings: Understanding emotion in media coverage of sport-related traumatic brain injuries I had the opportunity to contribute a chapter to a forthcoming book called Head in the Game: Sociocultural Analyses of Brain Trauma in Sport. The book is edited by a fantastic group of Australian researchers led by Dr. Stephen Townsend (The University of…
New Project Alert: EDI in Canadian Sports Media
Have the Goalposts Shifted? Interrogating the “EDI Turn” in Canadian Sport Media I am so excited to be part of a fantastic research team working on new research studying equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in Canadian sports media. The team is led by Dr. Adam Ali (Western University) and also includes Dr. Estée Fresco (York…
Publication Alert: Analyzing Nate in Ted Lasso
‘You are Nathan F*cking Shelley!’: Orientalism, White Saviourism, and the Radicalization of Nate in Ted Lasso This was a really cool one: I recently published an analysis of Ted Lasso that I wrote with Dr. Adam Ali (Western University). We take a close look at the show’s portrayal of Nathan Shelley (played by Nick Mohammed),…