Baby's First Academic Publication 🥲

"A new world is possible if we want it."

Happy New Year, Friends!

I am overjoyed to share that my first-ever peer-reviewed journal article has been published. For those who don’t know, I am Co-Senior Editor of the Mythological Studies Journal. My colleague Kira Kull and I, as well as incoming Senior Editor

Dan Enbysk

, have been busting our humps to bring Volume XII of MSJ to life. It is a welcome relief to offer this gift to our department at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and to the fields of myth studies, literary studies, depth psychology, archetypal studies, and religious studies.

My piece “From The End to Eden: Exploring Myth and Literature for a New World” has been in the works for nearly a year, first conceived as a course paper and then expanded and edited for publication with care and verve by

Gerry Sheahan

and Kira Kull. The article is a love letter to Octavia Butler, Becky Chambers, and Saidiya Hartman.¹ To cite Toni Morrison (who appears in the article)², I wrote what I needed to read, which was a message of hope, faith, and the works required to bring a revolutionary vision to fruition.³

Read the 2024 Mythological Studies Journal

You can read Volume XII of the Mythological Studies Journal: Interstitial Intermediaries for free or purchase print-on-demand copies on MagCloud. I hope you do.

1. It is also a testament to the kind generosity of my educators and friends who have piqued my curiosity and/or encouraged me to write over the years, including but not limited to A. Ankumah, M. Ellis, E. Lord-Kambistch, K. Miller Hill, and S. Spain.

2. See 1981 September 27, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Writing Is Third Career For Morrison by Ellen Brown (Entertainment Reporter), Quote Page F11, Column 1, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Newspapers.com)

3. “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.” James 2:14-17, The New Oxford Annotated Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha, Oxford UP, 2018. p. 2168.