English Professor Margo Lukens became fifth Director of the MHC

Starting July 1, 2018 Professor Margo Lukens began a two-year term as the fifth director of the McGillidcuddy Humanities Center.

Professor Lukens’s 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.

Lukens has been involved in the startup of many projects, including The Radcliffe Pitches, Orono Community Theatre, the Penobscot Players (of Indian Island), the Stillwater Community Arts organization, and most recently True North Theatre. She also has 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).

With such a passionate humanist at its head, our Center can’t help but thrive and grow in many meaningful new directions.

Welcome Margo!