Author: Brett Siegel / University of Texas at Austin

Brett Siegel is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant in Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film (RTF) at the University of Texas-Austin Moody College of Communication. He received his MA in Critical Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and his MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. His research focuses on power, ideology, and identity in sports and sports media. He has published in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Journal of Emerging Sport Studies and he has a chapter forthcoming the Handbook of Communication and Sport. He has served as an Assistant Instructor for a core course in RTF, “Narrative Strategies and Media Design,” as well as an elected representative of RTF’s Graduate Student Organization. He is an article shepherd for The Velvet Light Trap and a column editor for Flow, where he has contributed original articles.