Director Emeriti
Dr. Moore received his bachelor's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University and his MA and PhD. degrees in English from the University of Virginia. He became a member of the SUNY Oswego English faculty in 1978 and served as director of composition from 1979 to 1989, and as English department chair from 1992 through 2001. In 1988, he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2004 the President's Award for Excellence in Student Advising.
He taught primarily in the areas of late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, modern drama and theories and methods of teaching composition. He has authored several articles on the work of William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He served as president of the campus chapter of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi. In 2005, he served with six other scholars of composition studies across SUNY to develop standards by which colleges and universities could evaluate the achievements of their freshman writing programs. He also served as member and then as chair of the American Literature Committee for the Educational Testing Service, the group charged with developing test questions in American literature for the CLEP examinations. He is a member of National Council of Teachers of English, the Society for the Study of Southern Culture and The Fitzgerald Society.