Professor of English, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
Office
Moreland 232
Gilkey 207
Phone
541-737-3972
Email
moriard@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Stanford 1976
B.A. University of Notre Dame 1970
Areas of specialization
American Literature (especially fiction), American Cultural Studies
(especially sports)
Selected publications
Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite
Sport, University of North Carolina Press (2007)
King Football: Sport & Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio
and Newsreels, Movies & Magazines, the Weekly & the Daily
Press, University of North Carolina Press (2001).
Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American
Spectacle, University of North Carolina Press (1993).
Sporting With the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in
American Culture, Cambridge University Press (1991).
Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980,
Nelson- Hall (1982).
The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football,
Doubleday (1982).
Grants, awards and honors
Distinguished Professor of American Literature and
Culture
