Michael D GiardinaMichael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University, USA. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including the award-winning Sport, Spectale, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (with Joshua Newman; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry: Research in a Pandemic (with Norman K. Denzin; Routledge, 2021). He is a two-time recipient of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award (2006, 2012). He is the coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies, coeditor of International Review of Qualitative Research, coeditor of three book series on qualitative inquiry for Routledge, and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). He can be followed on Twitter @mdgiardinaFSU.