Jane's Online Teaching Adventures

In this episode for Witches and Popular Culture (THR 380), Ashanti, Luci, and I discuss the mid-90s cult classic film, THE CRAFT, as part of our current unit on Teen Witches and Monstrosity. Enjoy!

In this video, I welcome y'all back from Spring Break, review the itinerary and preview what's coming up in this class, and then review the Ancient Greek tragedy MEDEA by Euripides! Using Aristotle's theory about tragic heroes, in this episode I explain how we typically see Jason as the hero of this tragedy.

In this video, Dana and I explore the intersections of Jewish and Witch culture (and practice). 
The first 10 minutes or so of this video DO feature Dana but sadly, the last half of our interview got lost in the shuffle, so I re-recorded the pod and attempted to cover the same basic material for y'all. I hope you'll still enjoy!

Some of the references made in this post include:
Kohenet Ketzirah HaMa'agelet and her definition of Magick:
https://devotaj.substack.com/p/what-is-magick-b42

The article from which I read Tanner-Kennedy's definition of "metaphysical religion" is: "Gertrude Stein and the Metaphysical Avant-Garde," in religions (2020) 11.152, doi:10.3390/rel11040152

Catherine Albanese's book, A Republic of Mind and Spirit (available as an e-book at KU Libraries!)
Rabbi Jill Hammer
Tree of Life / Sefirot (from Kabbalah): https://www.walkingkabbalah.com/kabbalah-tree-of-life-sephirot/

In this bonus podcast episode (!!), Henry and I (but mostly Henry!) discuss the play upon which the musical Oklahoma! was based: Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs. This material was created for students enrolled in our US Theatre History course (THR 528/702) in Spring 2025.

In this week's podcast for Witches in Popular Culture, Gillian and Jane explore the dark comedy by Kimberly Belflower, John Proctor is the Villain (2022). This play is being produced at KU, and will run March 7-13 in the William Inge Memorial Theatre.

For tickets and more information, see: https://kutheatre.ku.edu/john-proctor-villain