Publications
Here’s a list of some of my favourite and most impactful publications in academic journals or online media. Click on each publication title to learn more!
You can also visit my Books page, download my full CV, or check out my Google Scholar page.
Book Chapters
- The Debilitating Discourses of Long COVID: The Public Pedagogies of Sporting Bodies (in press)
- ‘You are Nathan F*cking Shelley!’: Orientalism, White Saviourism, and the Radicalization of Nate in Ted Lasso (2025)
- Mixed feelings: Understanding emotion in media coverage of sport-related traumatic brain injuries (2025)
- Is CTE a Defense for Murder? Critical Insights into Violence, Crime and Brain Trauma in Sports (2022)
- The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury (2020)
- Beyond the Biopsychosocial: A Case for Critical Qualitative Concussion Research (2020)
Journal Articles
- “Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL (2023)
- A criminal mind? A damaged brain? Narratives of criminality and culpability in the celebrated case of Aaron Hernandez (2019)
- The Curious Case of CTE: Mediating Materialities of Traumatic Brain Injury (2019)
- “Officially A Vegan Now”: On Meat and Renaissance Masculinity in Pro Football (2014)
- When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League (2014)