Maureen McCluskey
Maureen McCluskey, Ed.D. is an Instructor with the Department of English, Creator of the UNF Shakespeare Program, and for the last six years served as Advisor for UNF’s Musical Theatre Club, Swoop Troupe Productions. Previously, Maureen worked on Broadway, most recently with The Phantom of the Opera and the Tony-Award winning revival of The King and I at Lincoln Center. She has appeared as a named and segmented guest on NBC’s The Today Show and The Better Show.
Currently, Maureen manages interdisciplinary collaborations with the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Arboretum and Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Jacksonville, Clay County Schools, the City of Ponte Vedra, Northeast Florida ASL Community, UNF’s Healing Gardens, OakLeaf High School, O.L.L.I. Institute, ARC Jacksonville, UNF’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library, Florida State University, Friday Musicale, Nocatee Community, and others. She is committed to students’ success both inside traditional coursework and outside artistic and community-based endeavors and has made significant contributions to active learning and inclusion.
Tru Leverette Hall
Dr. Tru Leverette Hall is professor of English and director of Africana Studies at UNF. Her research focuses broadly on race, gender and justice in literature and culture. In 2021, Dr. Leverette Hall published the edited collection With Fists Raised: Radical Art, Contemporary Activism, and the Iconoclasm of the Black Arts Movement, and in 2022 she published the monograph The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice. She is a collaborator, with Drs. Laura Heffernan and Clayton McCarl, on the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Viola Muse Digital Edition and is a teaching- and capacity-building fellow with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, which fosters digital humanities research and teaching. Dr. Leverette Hall has been a contributing blogger for Mixed Roots Stories and is currently a board member with Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville.
Her current book project deals with African American environmental history.