The 2024 recipient of the Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Florence Dore teaches literature courses in Carolina’s English Department. After finishing up a BA in English at Wesleyan University, she worked as a waitress and taught eight graders how to diagram sentences, eventually returning to school and earning her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999, where she specialized in American modernism with a focus on the fiction of William Faulkner. She has written three books and numerous articles, including one about the relation between rock music and Southern literature.