The Stories We Tell, The Stories That Tell Us
Join host Leigh Melander, Ph.D., and her guests from around the world as we explore the evocative mythologies that inform who we are.
Myths are the stories that we tell and the stories that tell us.™ They are the metaphors that shape our imagination of the world around us.
After four years and almost 200 shows on a local NPR affiliate, Myth America is taking a brief hiatus to finally get ourselves organized as a real, live podcast to share with the world via iTunes and other services. We’re finally building out the website and looking forward to being able to share Myth America on demand, so you can listen when you’d like to!
Coming soon:
Podcasts from mythamericaradio.com
Twitter @myth_america
The ancient Greeks said that myths were the things that were most and least true simultaneously. Far from just being a lie, myths pulse in the background of all of our lives -- our selves, our families, our communities -- we tell ourselves stories about all of them.
What are the myths we're living in and how are they living in us?
About Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Leigh has a doctorate in Cultural Mythology and Psychology, with an emphasis in Imaginal Studies.
Her undergraduate degree is in performance, literature, and history from Penn State, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University. She has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has published articles in Spring Journal, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies, The Mythology CD-ROM, and has appeared in various media outlets, including the History Channel, as a mythology expert. She edits the Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast series, article series and has served on the Joseph Campbell Foundation Board since 2013.
She is the Founding Fomenter/Partner of Spillian: A Place to Revel, a creative center offering programming in imagination, story, myth, sustainability, and community; as well as its various media & educational efforts, including Myth America. Leigh has two books in the works, hoping to have them ready to hit the presses later in 2018, and offers workshops, lectures, and coaching on mythology/story, creativity, and women’s empowerment both at Spillian and at venues across the US. Learn more here!
