Michael Oriard

Professor of English
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts

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

Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era, University of North Carolina Press (2009).

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