Nancy McDaniel Moore
P.O. Box 417
Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831
Education
Ph.D., in Modern American Literature, Georgia State University, 2003
Dissertation: The Moth Ladies of Tennessee Williams
Dissertation Director: Prof. Virginia Spencer Carr
M.Ed., Columbus College, 1973
Concentration: English secondary school education
B.A., English, Columbus College, 1970
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English, 1999-Present (full time; non-tenure)
College of Arts and Letters, Department of Language and Literature
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Adjunct Instructor of English, 1983-1999
College of Arts and Letters, Department of Language and Literature
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Director of Corporate Training for Synovus and TSYS 1982-1999
English Department Acting Chair, Harris County High, Hamilton, GA, 1980-82
Adjunct Instructor of English, Troy State University at Ft. Benning, 1973-78
Secondary school teacher, English, Baker High School, Columbus, GA, 1970-75
Areas of special interest within the English profession:
Diversity as seen through literature
Twentieth Century American Playwrights
Literature of the American South
Helping the freshman student write for success in college
Professional Membership:
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Service:
Women’s Issues Council, Chair, 2003-2013, Chair 2005-2007
Graduation Committee, 2004-2012
Library Committee, 2003-2006, Chair 2012-2014
Faculty advisor, The Saber, 2004-2008
Publications Committee, 2003-2005, Chair 2006
Awards and Honors:
Nominee for Educator of the Year at CSU, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2011
Employee of the Year, Total System Services, 1988
Instructor of the Year, U.S. Army, Infantry School, 1983.
First female civilian instructor in the U.S. Army Infantry School
Professional Growth and Development:
Completed my PhD while teaching a full load at CSU
Researched diversity as seen through literature and developed a course which systematically addressed related issues as seen through college level writings. Later this course was used in presentations and is now being used by other professors in the University System of Georgia.
Have continued to write essays and short stories as a means to keep myself in touch with my
students’ writing challenges.
Professional Activities:
Publications:“Inside with Phil Tomlinson” Shareholder’s magazine, Synovus, 2000 (contract)
“Your Business Writing IQ” The Georgia Power Citizen, 2002
Presentations:
“Marking it Up: Information Literacy in the Freshman English Classroom,”
workshop and paper, Georgia Conference on Information Literacy ,
Georgia Southern University, 2005
“The Creative Impulses of Tennessee Williams,” invited lecture,
Georgia State University, January 2003.
“Fantasy Literature,” session chair, SAMLA, November 2003
“Quicksand: Search for the New Negro Woman,” SAMLA, 2002
“Carson and 10: The Loneliness of the Artist” invited lecture, Brookstone School,
Columbus, GA; October 2002
“The Significance of ‘the land’ in Southern Literature’s Canon,” panelist,
Perimeter College, 1999
“Address to a Mentor: Virginia Carr”, SAMLA, November 2012
“A Ring of Fire’: Southern Women Writers and their use of the religious,” Perimeter College, 2013