Office/Office Hours

• office: 327 Ross
• office hours (Fall 2007): Wed. 2-3:30, Thurs. 9-10:30, and by appointment
• office phone: (515) 294-3671
• email: neiln@iastate.edu

Interests

• American fiction
• American literature since 1914
• Sport literature
• Jane Smiley's fiction

Honors and Awards

• Named University Professor, April 2001
• Iowa State University Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Teaching, May 1996

Selected Publications

• "Thank You." Aethlon 24 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007), 56-57.
• "Wilson River, Oregon, February, 7:15 A.M." Aethlon 24 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007), 133.
• "Jane Smiley," in Popular Contemporary Writers, Vol. 9, ed. M. Sharp, et al. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, 2005, pp. 1279-94.
• "Doctor's Luck." Annals of Internal Medicine 137 (16 July 2002), 142.
• "Minidoka, Idaho, Winter 1944-45." Flyway 6.3/7.1 (Sprng 2002), 8.
• "Home and Away." Aethlon 17 (Spring 2000), 142.
• Understanding Jane Smiley. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999.
• A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L Kinneavy, ed. with Stephen Witte and Roger Cherry. Carbondale, Ill: Southern Illinois U P, 1992.
• Writing in the Liberal Arts Tradition: A Rhetoric With Readings, 2d ed., with James L. Kinneavy and William J. McCleary. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Affiliations

• Sport Literature Association

Degrees

• Ph.D.,English/American Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1972
• M.A., English, Indiana University, 1968
• B.A., English, with Honors in Humanities, Stanford University, 1965