Associate Professor of English, Dr. Greg Giddings assumed the role as the University’s Faculty Athletics Representative in 2014. Dr. Giddings has a long history with MSU Texas athletics, playing basketball from 1983-85, as well as coaching for seven years from 1996-2003. In 2005, he was also inducted into the MSU Texas Hall of Honor.
As FAR, Dr. Giddings serves as a liaison between athletics and the MSU Texas faculty, and among many duties, he works with athletics administrators on programs to benefit student-athletes. Dr. Giddings is also the university’s representative to the Lone Star Conference’s Council of Faculty Athletics Representatives, having previously served the organization as chair.
While teaching composition and American literature classes, Dr. Giddings has scholarly interests in masculinities studies, and he has published articles in that vein on the works of Pat Conroy and local author Larry McMurtry. Recently, Dr. Giddings has branched out into popular culture studies, presenting papers at conferences on the Beatles and his long-time favorite singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
Dr. Giddings has decades-long associations with the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) and the American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT), previously serving both as President.
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