Laura is a full-time online instructor at the University of Oklahoma, teaching courses in Folklore & Mythology, World Literature, and the Epics of Ancient India. She has published books on Aesop's fables, Latin proverbs, and the Vulgate Bible. Find out more about Laura by visiting her Bestiaria Latina Blog.
Laura continues her series on the “ecology of magic” used by storytellers, looking at the balance and harmony of the “greensong” sung by the American land in Orson Scott Card’s Red Prophet, the second volume of his Alvin Maker series.
Laura begins her series on the “ecology of magic” that storytellers create for their imagined worlds, looking first at the alternate America imagined by Orson Scott Card in his Alvin Maker series, beginning with Seventh Son.