Nancy Mcdaniel Moore

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