{"id":4258,"date":"2018-07-01T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2018-12-13T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:09:51","slug":"english-professor-margo-lukens-became-fifth-director-of-the-mhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/2018\/07\/01\/english-professor-margo-lukens-became-fifth-director-of-the-mhc\/","title":{"rendered":"English Professor Margo Lukens became fifth Director of the MHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3789\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2018\/04\/Margo-227x300.png\" alt=\"Margo Lukens\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2018\/04\/Margo-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2018\/04\/Margo-105x140.png 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2018\/04\/Margo-317x418.png 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2018\/04\/Margo.png 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,227px\" \/>Starting July 1, 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/english.umaine.edu\/people\/margo-lukens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Margo Lukens<\/a>\u00a0began a two-year term as the fifth director of the McGillidcuddy Humanities Center.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Lukens\u2019s professional experience, research interests, and community projects are manifold. For English she teaches colonial to 19th-century Anglo-American and a variety of Native American literatures. She does extensive work with Native American and First Nations plays and playwrights, including Wabanaki literary and storytelling history.<\/p>\n<p>Lukens has been involved in the startup of many projects, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/~pitches\/?page_id=580\">The Radcliffe Pitches<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2457&amp;dat=20050428&amp;id=IiE0AAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=WuEIAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2429,3679873&amp;hl=en\">Orono Community Theatre<\/a>, the Penobscot Players (of Indian Island), the <a href=\"https:\/\/stillwatercommunityarts.org\/\">Stillwater Community Arts\u00a0<\/a>organization, and most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truenorththeatre.org\/\">True North Theatre<\/a>. She also\u00a0has extensive administrative experience, having served terms as chair of English and of New Media. She was also a Founding Director of Innovation Engineering Academic Programs (2007-2017).<\/p>\n<p>With such a passionate humanist at its head, our Center can\u2019t help but thrive and grow in many meaningful new directions.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Margo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 1, 2018 Professor Margo Lukens\u00a0began a two-year term as the fifth director of the McGillidcuddy Humanities Center. Professor Lukens\u2019s professional experience, research interests, and community projects are manifold. For English she teaches colonial to 19th-century Anglo-American and a variety of Native American literatures. 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