Spring Break
The secret life of Charles Moore
Jennifer Menster
Issue date: 11/11/03 Section: Campus News
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But there is more to him than what meets the eye.
What may be the most shocking fact about Moore is that he is a former CIA agent.
"A lot of my students find it unexpected - 'Doctor Moore in the CIA?" he said.
Before Moore received his Ph.D in Spanish, he served as a Latin-American Intelligence agent for the U.S. Government Joint Intelligence Committee of the CIA and Department of Defense at Fort Bragg.
Moore said he worked with hijackings, threat analysis and preventing attacks.
While Moore said he liked the job, it was a lot of pressure, a lot of middle-of-the-night flights to foreign countries and a lot of unpredictable situations.
He got involved with government work while working on his master's degree at George Mason University in Washington, D.C. However, after deciding he needed to step back from the pressure of the job, Moore went on to get his doctorate in Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Moore has now been at Gardner-Webb for seven years-his first tenure-teaching job. However, he did teach a few courses at UNC Pembroke and NC State University, prior to coming to GWU.
Moore spends the school year teaching Spanish at GWU. He is also the chair of the foreign language department.
However, Moore doesn't spend his nights sitting at home grading papers or his summers planning for the upcoming year.
When he is not in class, Moore does enjoy average things like working out, gardening and watching college football.
Moore is also researching his second book and plans for the book to be about the Spanish chronicles of the American southeast. His first book, entitled El Arte de Predicar, de Juan de Espionosa Medrano en la Novena Maravilla, was published in Peru in 2000 and deals with the art of preaching.
During the summer, Moore takes time off from teaching to be an ambassador for the U.S. Six weeks out of the summer, he travels across the country with international Spanish visitors as a translator for the U.S. State Department. Moore said he loves his summer job because of its involvement with travel, language and the U.S. government.