Part of the reason I forgot though had to do with today being my sister's birthday and taking her out for some birthday fun. Like you do. In 18 degrees weather! Ouch!
Anyway....
I got word last night that a course I had proposed at Arcadia University (where I teach in the English Dept) was approved for fall 2013 and I am ridiculously excited about this class.
I'll be teaching The Hero's Journey, looking at the archetypal journey in myth, literature, history, pop culture and psychology, and I'll also be examining the feminine counterpart of the journey. I remember discovering Joseph Campbell and his work my freshman year of college.
And I was SO pissed.
Mostly because I'd started creating my own theory about the hero's journey and putting together all of the similarities I found in Sumerian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Indian mythology. I had started studying the journey in religion when I was in high school for an independent art project.
And then I read The Hero With A Thousand Faces and realized Joseph Campbell had already done the work for me. And then I forgave him because it was so amazing.
And now I get to teach it! I'm working on a few other proposals at the moment.
Speaking of classes I'm teaching...Art of the Query Letter is in two Fridays.
9 more days you guys! 9 more days of "daily" blogging and 9 more days to finish my novel! EEK!
Sounds like an interesting class! By any chance, would you be teaching any of these classes online?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cynthia. There aren't any plans for that right now, but this could be a possibility in the future.
DeleteAWESOME!!!! Congrats Frankie!!! In addition to your good news, I can add -- I finally turned in my R&R to that agent (after a YEAR, lol!). I read The Hero WaTF my freshman/sophomore year of college; I was writing a fairy tale retelling novel and a friend suggested it. Blew my mind. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rachel! And congrats to you!!! WOOT! I'm so happy to hear that R&R is finished! Keep me posted on progress! I expect big things from you soon!
DeleteOOH congrats on getting your class approved! I'm a journalism and psychology double major, plus I write (and of course love to read) - so this course sounds particularly interesting to me. I'm with Cynthia; online classes sound very appealing. ;)
ReplyDeleteGood luck on finishing your novel! Can you feel the warmth of the light at the end of the tunnel?
~Wendy Lu
The Red Angel Blog
Thanks, Wendy! Maybe one day I'll do some online courses. And I don't quite feel the warmth at the end of the tunnel yet...but I'm close to being close to feeling the warmth.
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