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Patricia Aakhus

Phone:  465-7088

Office:  LA3053

Email:  paakhus@usi.edu

Patricia Aakhus is the Director of International Studies and teaches courses in Creative Writing and Humanities. 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 many contemporary short stories, essays and poems. She has recently completed a personal memoir, Rigoletto’s Daughter, and a libretto based on her translation of Chretien de Troyes’ Old French The Knight with the Lion.