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Saturday, May 25 at 9AM (Central Time) ZOOM
The Heroine’s Journey: Mapping The Mythic Quest in Story
Instructor: Nadia Salem
Workshop Blurb: How To Tell The Perfect Story Using The Heroine’s Journey
Workshop Description: The heroine’s journey is a mythic quest that has its origins in the monomyth. This webinar explicates Maureen Murdock’s conception of the heroine’s journey step by step with complete examples from contemporary film to reveal an age-old and successful storytelling pattern that creative writers can adapt to their novels.
Instructor’s Bio: As a mythopoeic scholar, Nadia Salem researches mythic structures in narrative throughout literature and film. By understanding mythology’s influence in creating classics, bestsellers, and blockbusters, she studies cross-cultural, genre-bending, marginalized stories for popular and political impact. Nadia has a doctorate in English and Creating Writing from Aberystwyth University and a doctorate in law from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Her academic interests are in law and literature, mythopoesis, and transmodernism. She has taught mythic structure at Georgetown University and Northwestern University and currently serves a faculty at DePaul University. Nadia is also a playwright, having authored several produced plays about the American immigrant BIPOC experience.
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