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Dennis Moore |
As of midsummer 2008, Dr. Moore is returning to his earlier role as Faculty Director of the Bryan Hall
Learning Community. For five years, 2003-'008, he coordinated the academic activities of the
campus-wide network of learning communities we think of as FSU's Community of Communities.
When Dr. Moore first became involved with our campus-wide network of living and learning communities, in the late '90s, it was a much more compact network. During the spring semester of 1999, while he was teaching a Contemporary Literature course in the Bryan Hall Learning Community, he received a tantalizing challenge: serving as successor to the program's founding director, Dr. George Weaver. He served as Associate Director during the 1999-'000 academic year, and then during his four years as Director he helped shape the program's emphasis on curiosity and the desire to learn.
As a tenured Associate Professor of English, Dr. Moore teaches a number of undergraduate courses in U. S. literature, some of which are cross-listed with the interdisciplinary Program in American and Florida Studies and a few of which have been at FSU's study centers in London and in Florence. His scholarly research involves earlier American literature and culture; currently he is preparing an expanded and revised edition of a collection of essays that first appeared in 1782, in London and in English: the French-born writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. Dr. Moore's teaching has earned him numerous awards, including four campus-wide ones here at FSU, most recently the 1999 University Distinguished Teacher Award and, in 2005, his second University Teaching Award.
He has recently completed five years' service on FSU's Faculty Senate Steering Committee and is quite active in several professional associations, including as founder of the "Early American Matters" group, one of several caucuses within the interdisciplinary American Studies Association, and as immediate past president of the interdisciplinary Society of Early Americanists. He has co-hosted regional meetings, here at FSU, for both the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Southern American Studies Association, and he serves on each organization's executive committee.
Occasionally he includes a very brief blurb about himself in a course syllabus, sometimes ending along these lines: "I was an undergrad at another football school here in the South, Clempson [sic], and I went on to Chapel Hill for my M.A. and Ph.D. . . . I do love teaching, traveling, talking with friends, fly fishing, going to movies, gawking at birds, and yeah, walking on the beach in the moonlight."