MEREDITH M. BAGLEY

RESEARCH FELLOW, She/her

Dr. Meredith M. Bagley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Alabama. She uses critical/cultural and rhetorical theory to examine artifacts and trends within public memory on higher education campuses and within sport and social change efforts. In winter/spring 2023 she is guest editing a two-part special forum in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies about the public memory landscape of higher education and is excited to join Tourism ReSET as a Research Fellow. Her sport research has been featured in Sport, Rhetoric & Political Struggle (Grano & Butterworth Eds, Peter Lang, 2019) Uniformly Discussed: Sportswomen’s Apparel (Fuller Ed., 2020) and, most recently 2019 Women’s World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage (Yanity & Coombs Eds, Palgrave, 2021). A lifelong athlete, Dr. Bagley most recently played and coached rugby. She lives in Connecticut with her wife and two children.

Expertise: Rhetoric of Public Memory, Desegregation in Higher Education, Sport Rhetoric and Activism,

LGBTQ+ advocacy and social movements.

Contact: mbagley@ua.edu

Selected Publications

“Introduction: Interrogating the Memory Landscape of Higher Education.” Communication and Critical/Culture Studies, February 2023. Doi: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169314

“Conditions of Voice: Black Student-Athlete Activism at The University of Alabama.” In Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change. Dr. Mia Long, ed. (138-154). Lexington Books (Rowman/Littlefield): 2022.

“Fans as MVP: Or the need for Sensuous Audiences in Sport.” Invited contribution to public scholarship project The Olympic Analysis, providing immediate scholarly response to 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Available at http://olympicanalysis.org/section-4/fans-as-mvp-or-the-need-for-sensuous-audiences-in-sport-2/

“Being There, Being Here: What Critical Field Methods can tell us about the FIFA World Cup 2019,” with coauthor Mary Anne Taylor. In 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer’s Biggest Stage, 133-158. Yanity, M. and Coombs, D. Eds. Palgrave: 2021.