Home / People / Dr. Charles Moore Dr. Charles Moore Professor of Spanish Education Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A., George Mason University B.S., University of Tennessee at Knoxville Biography Professor of Spanish at GWU since 1997, Dr. Charles B. Moore has spent nearly two years of his career living, working, traveling, and studying in Spain and over ten Latin American countries. He served as a GS-12 Latin American Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense at Fr. Bragg, NC and Washington, DC in the 1980s, and during summers since 1984 he still serves as a Spanish Administrative Interpreter for the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Program (IVLP). Dr. Moore is the former president of the North Carolina Foreign Language Association (FLANC), the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), and the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP-NC). He has won several university, state, regional, and national awards such as the FLANC (2011), SCOLT (2009), and AATSP (2009) Higher Ed Teacher of the Year Awards, the Orden de los Descubridores Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honor Society Service Award (2008), the GWU Scholarship Award (2012), the GWU Students with Disabilities Teacher Recognition Award (2001), and the Sigma Delta Pi-Albatros Ediciones Book Award (2025). Author of two books, Legado lírico: amistad petrarquista y poesía hispanoamericana (Valencia: Albatros Ediciones, 2025) and El arte de predicar de Juan de Espinosa Medrano en La novena maravilla (Lima: Universidad Católica, 2000), as well as more than 40 pier-reviewed articles on colonial, 19th-century, and contemporary literary topics in the Spanish language, Dr. Moore is a frequent presenter at MIFLC, SAMLA, and other annual conferences. Along with teaching all levels of Spanish from core to upper-level literary seminars at GWU, Dr. Moore serves as Sigma Delta Pi-GWU Tau Omega Chapter sponsor and program director for Spanish in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He has served on numerous university-level committees at GWU including the Athletic Committee, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Student and Campus Life Committee, and Academic Policy and Standards Committee. He is a member of Central United Methodist Church in Shelby, NC, where he lives with his wife, Teralea. In their spare time, the Moores enjoy international travel, gardening, reading, exercising at the Shelby YMCA, and enjoying family and friends.
