DENNIS MOORE, Associate Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ph.D. North Carolina (1990). Specializes in the literature of colonial America and in U.S. literature to 1900. Faculty Director of FSU's Bryan Hall; instigator of the American Studies Association's Early American Matters Caucus; and immediate past president of the interdisciplinary Society of Early Americanists. Click here to read his presidential address at the SEA's 2007 conference at Williamsburg.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Letters From an American Farmer, Revised and Enlarged Edition -- under contract, Harvard University Press.
• Assembling The New Crèvecoeur, a collection of theoretically informed essays.
• "From 'The Melting Pot' to Multiculturalism." Teaching the Literatures of Early America, ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999, 309-20.
• More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur (editor), U of Georgia Press, 1995 -- designated "An Approved Edition" by Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, 1994.
• "'A Family Truly Divided Indeed': Domesticity and the Golden Age in Crèvecoeur's Unpublished Manuscripts," Studies in the Humanities, 1991.

AWARDS

• 2008, one of FSU's three nominees, this time, national Professor of the Year Award
• 2007, one of FSU's two nominees, again, Professor of the Year Award
• 2006 to present, Society of Early Americanists' "Honoring Excellence in Teaching" list
• 2005, University Teaching Award again, "In Recognition of Excellence in Teaching"
• 2005, one of FSU's two nominees, again, Professor of the Year Award
• 2005, Being There Award -- Division of Student Affairs
• 2004, one of FSU's two nominees, Professor of the Year Award
• 2003, FSU's Seminole Faculty/Staff Award
• 2002 to present, "ASECS Honors Its Great Teachers" list
• 2002, Member, Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary Society ("ODK")
• 2002, Faculty recipient of Knowledge Award, ODK's third annual Leadership Celebration
• 2001, Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society
• 1999, University Distinguished Teacher Award
• 1999, Being There Award -- Division of Student Affairs
• 1995, Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, "For Excellence in College Teaching"
• 1995, Seminole Teaching Award -- Division of Student Affairs
• 1995, FSU Faculty Member of the Month Award -- Golden Key
• 1993, University Teaching Award, "In Recognition of Excellence in Teaching"
• 1991, Summer stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Florida State:

• Faculty Director, Bryan Hall Learning Community: 2000-summer 2004 and again summer 2008--
• Coordinating Director, summer 2003 to summer 2008, University Learning Communities
• Elected At-large member of Faculty Senate representing College of Arts and Sciences, 2002-2010
• Elected member of Faculty Senate Steering Committee, 2003-2008; Elected Chair of Senate Library Committee, 2008--
• Faculty advisor, FSU Book Club and Graduate Union of English Students
• Board, Friends of the FSU Libraries, 1994 to present, and Program chair, 1995-2005

Regionally:

• Executive Committee, Southern American Studies Association, and co-chair of host committee for its 2003 conference
• Board member of SEASECS, the southeastern affiliate of ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)

Nationally:

• Organizer, "Early American Matters" caucus within American Studies Association
• President (2005-2007), Society of Early Americanists
• Member, representing SASA, of ASA's Regional Chapters' Committee
• Associate chair of program committee, 2001 meeting of SEA (Society of Early Americanists), Norfolk
• Program committee, 2002 meeting of ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), Colorado Springs
• Advisory Board, ASECS's On-Line Book Reviews project

Internationally:

• Active in Iris Murdoch Society.