Ben Lisle

 

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

M.A. University of Virginia

 

 

BOOKS

Modern Coliseum: Stadiums and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

 

ESSAYS

“Materiality and Meaning: Synthetic Grass, Sport, and the Limits of Modern Progress.” In Material Matters: Selections from the Winterthur Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, 2013.

“Football, Fútbol, and Chuck.” In Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy, edited by Seth Vannatta. Chicago: Open Court, 2012.

“‘We Make a Big Effort to Bring Out the Ladies’: Visual Representations of Women in the Postwar American Stadium.” In The Visual in Sport, edited by Mike Huggins and Mike O’Mahony. London: Routledge, 2011.

“‘We Make a Big Effort to Bring Out the Ladies’: Visual Representations of Women in the Postwar American Stadium.” International Journal of the History of Sport 28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1203-1218.

“In Conversation: Gary Green with Ben Lisle,” Tilted Arc (October 2015).

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Digital Maine, project coordinator (2016-)