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Patricia Aakhus is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and program director of International Studies.  She teaches courses in classical and world mythology, the history of magic and international studies.  She has a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Writing from Norwich University.

She is the author of three published novels, The Voyage of Mael Duin’s Curragh, Daughter of the Boyne, and The Sorrows of Tara, based on epic poems she translated from Old Irish, as well as contemporary short stories, essays and poems.  Recent publications include “Astral Magic in the Renaissance: Gems, Poetry and Patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft. and the short story “The Spy,” Sandhill Review.   Her libretto based on her translation of Chretien de Troyes’ Old French The Knight with the Lion was performed in 2008 by USI theatre students at the Scavone Award in Medieval Studies.  She is currently working on a contemporary novel, Dogtown.