Maureen McCluskey
Maureen E. McCluskey, Ed.D. is an innovative instructor at UNF. Her multiple and award-winning projects include working with the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens, LISC Jacksonville, Clay County Schools, the City of Ponte Vedra, Friday Musicale, MOCA Jacksonville, Bit of Faith Ranch, ARC Jacksonville, Eartha’s Farm & Market, Broadway Hearts, and with Guitarist Sharon Isbin. Since childhood, Dr. McCluskey has loved the connections within communication, music, and theatre. In her adulthood, she has worked on numerous productions in New York and Florida, most recently with The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway; the Tony-Award winning All the Way and The King and I (Lincoln Center); UNF Shakespeare’s fully-ASL-Interpreted Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing; UNF Opera’s Cosi fan Tutte; Swoop Night Live; A Cappella Nativity; Spotlight Center’s Breaking Up is Hard to Do; A Classic Theatre’s It’s a Wonderful Life; and Water Stories: A River Harvest (premiering March 2025).
Dr. McCluskey served as a leading spokesperson for L’Oreal, during her time at corporate HQ. She has performed/produced for The CBS Morning Show, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, The Tony Awards, Law & Order,Johnson & Johnson, Walt Disney World Entertainment, Canon, Vogue, All You, Boardwalk Empire, Derek Jeter, Onion News Network (stunt), Nurse Jackie (stunt), Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, Applied Brilliance Conference, and Festival del Sole Napa Valley.
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.
Kailan Sindelar
Dr. Kailan Sindelar is an Assistant Professor of Technical Writing at the University of North Florida. Her research focuses on understanding and leveraging environmental communication in emerging technologies to inform future design through critical analysis, participant observation, and interviews. Her recent scholarly work includes articles on designing interactive media about wildlife and wilderness, as well as book chapters that examine design with care ethics in physically immersive media. Her publications can be found in Journal of Environmental Media, Communication Design Quarterly, SIGDOC Proceedings, and The Changing Face of VR.
In addition to her written scholarship, Dr. Sindelar has recently completed two grant-funded digital projects: an augmented reality app and a virtual reality app. These projects involved collaboration with colleagues in UNF’s Biology department to support local audience education on saltwater intrusions, impacted ecologies, and potential responses from the community.
Dr. Sindelar also enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communication, and values collaboration with colleagues and students in her work.