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Medieval August Special!
Throughout August all medieval courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “MEDIEVAL” at checkout!
Throughout August all medieval courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “MEDIEVAL” at checkout!
This deal applies to the Beowulf Course, the Game of Thrones Course, the two Canterbury Tales courses, the three King Arthur courses, the Medieval Werewolves Course, the Robin Hood Course, and the History of the English Language(s) Course.
This special is only applicable during August, but you can apply your registration to a course beginning at any time!
The Odyssey Course Begins Soon!
Beginning Monday July 14: a new course from Clockworks Academy on Homer’s Odyssey!
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This course will be taught by Jacob Vanderkloet: a PhD student in Classics with a master’s degree in Greek and Roman Studies.
Jacob gave a talk on Homer as part of the first Symbolic Symposium at Clockworks Academy, and we’re delighted to have him back to teach a full course.
Beginning Monday July 14: a new course from Clockworks Academy on Homer’s Odyssey!
This course will be taught by Jacob Vanderkloet: a PhD student in Classics with a master’s degree in Greek and Roman Studies.
Jacob gave a talk on Homer as part of the first Symbolic Symposium at Clockworks Academy, and we’re delighted to have him back to teach a full course.
Homer’s Odyssey is, along with the Iliad, one of the two foundational epics of Greek myth and literature. Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War, in which he overcomes challenges from apathy to flesh-eating monsters, has captivated readers and listeners for millennia. Now it’s your turn to discover what’s worth knowing about The Odyssey!
Gothic in July Special!
From now until the end of July all gothic courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “GOTHIC” at checkout!
This deal applies to the Dracula Course, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Course, and the Frankenstein Course, but only for July!
From now until the end of July all gothic courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “GOTHIC” at checkout!
This deal applies to the Dracula Course, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Course, and the Frankenstein Course.
This special is only applicable during July, but you can apply your registration to a course beginning at any time!
Halloween Monsters Special!
From now until Halloween all monster courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “SPOOKY” at checkout!
This deal applies to the Beowulf Course, the Zombies Course, the Dracula Course, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Course, the Frankenstein Course, and the Medieval Werewolves Course! But only until Halloween!
From now until Halloween all monster courses at Clockworks Academy are 15% off! Just use the code “SPOOKY” at checkout!
This deal applies to the Beowulf Course, the Zombies Course, the Dracula Course, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Course, the Frankenstein Course, and the Medieval Werewolves Course! But only until Halloween!
We Love Libraries!
Until February 29, show me your library card and I’ll give you a discount code for 20% off any Clockworks Academy course!
Until February 29, show me your library card and I’ll give you a discount code for 20% off any Clockworks Academy course!
You can take a picture of your library card and send it to paul @ clockworksacademy.com!
Ask Good Paul / Ask Bad Paul
Send in your problems and I’ll give you both good advice and bad advice! You can choose which to follow.
Send in your problems and I’ll give you both good advice and bad advice! You can choose which to follow.
Seeking an instructor of African-American Poetry
Clockworks Academy is actively seeking an instructor to teach an eight-week course on African-American poetry. We are especially interested in a course on the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, but are willing to consider a wide range of other focii within that heading.
Clockworks Academy is actively seeking an instructor to teach an eight-week course on African-American poetry. We are especially interested in the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, but are willing to consider a wide range of focii within that heading.
Contact Dr. Paul Moffett at paul @ clockworksacademy.com for more information.
Annual Gingerbread Competition
Enter our annual gingerbread competition! Make some gingerbread, decorate it to be medieval, and set it our way! We’ll share all photos in December, and you may even get a prize!
Enter our annual gingerbread competition! Make some gingerbread, decorate it to be medieval, and set it our way! We’ll share all photos in December, and you may even get a prize!
Workshops for businesses
Can your employees write an email, a letter, or a report that represents you in the best professional light to your clients?
In an online workshop for up to four students at a time, with up to five distinct half-hour sessions, all tailored to meet your business’s specific needs, Clockworks Academy can help.
If your needs don’t fit the parameters of this workshop, please email workshops@clockworksacademy.com instead of booking here and we will be happy to arrange a plan that fits you.
Chat GPT and other AI programs are apparently making it easier and cheaper for businesses to meet their writing needs.
But does your business know how and when to use an AI for writing? Do the people writing on behalf of your business know how to proofread AI generated text effectively, what needs fact-checking, what prompts will generate useful results, how to improve auto-generated text by making it interesting to read, and most importantly, when it would be easier to just do it by hand?
In an online workshop for up to four students at a time, with up to five distinct half-hour sessions, all tailored to meet your business’s specific needs, Clockworks Academy can help.
If your needs don’t seem to fit the parameters of this workshop, please email workshops@clockworksacademy.com instead of booking here and we will be happy to arrange a plan that fits you.
The Medieval Werewolves Course
The Medieval Werewolves Course begins August 20th! Sign up and discover why werewolves are the most chivalrous of monsters!
The Medieval Werewolves Course begins November 12th! Sign up and discover why werewolves are the most chivalrous of monsters!
Stories of shapeshifters and werewolves go back centuries. Anglo-Norman writer Marie de France writes about Bisclavret in the twelfth century, but although her werewolf is the best-known it is not the only, or even the first tale of werewolf knights in the middle ages. In this course we will discover a number of medieval werewolves, from the moving to the horrifying, and begin to understand what makes werewolves so compelling.
The Beowulf Course is beginning soon!
The Beowulf course begins on August 6th! Sign up, read the oldest surviving epic in the English language with Dr. Paul Moffett, and find out why this ancient story of monster-slaying still matters to us today!
The Beowulf course begins on October 29th! Sign up, read the oldest surviving epic in the English language with Dr. Paul Moffett, and find out why this ancient story of monster-slaying still matters to us today!
In the Old English epic Beowulf, the title character fights three monsters: Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. Together, we will explore the symbolic meaning of each of these monsters, show what they each have to do with each other, and in the process grapple with the oldest epic in the English language.
The Frankenstein Course is beginning soon!
The Frankenstein Course begins October 15! Sign up and learn about the groundbreaking gothic novel and its enormous literary footprint!
The Frankenstein Course begins October 15! Sign up and learn about the groundbreaking gothic novel and its enormous literary footprint!
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a quintessential gothic novel, a foundational text in the history of science fiction, and a gripping monster story. It is beautiful, horrible, and philosophically engaging, has been continually in print since 1823, and has inspired countless imitations and adaptations. Find out what the fuss is about with me. Whether you’re reading Frankenstein for the first time or the tenth, this fascinating text is worth a closer look.
King Arthur Part One: A Fine Romance Is Beginning Soon!
The King Arthur Course Part One: A Fine Romance will begin on October 8! This course is focused on romance both in the modern sense of love stories and in the medieval sense of adventure stories.
All three King Arthur Courses function as standalone courses, and you do not have to take parts two and three to take this first course and enjoy it.
The King Arthur Course Part One: A Fine Romance will begin on October 8! This course is focused on romance both in the modern sense of love stories and in the medieval sense of adventure stories.
All three King Arthur Courses function as standalone courses, and you do not have to take parts two and three to take this first course and enjoy it.
Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur is the only work of medieval literature still commonly read by laypeople for pleasure. It represents an inflection point for Arthurian literature: it is the primary source to which virtually all adaptation or expansions of Arthurian legend return, and it is the lens through which scholars and amateurs alike have viewed older Arthurian legend for centuries. Come read Le Morte Darthur with me, and discover the adventure, the pathos, the mystery, an the humour of this amazing work.
The King Arthur Course will be divided in three parts, which will not depend on one another. Part One: A Fine Romance will focus on knights errant, ladies and maidens and damsels in distress, courtly romance, and love triangles.
The Zombies Course is Beginning Soon!
The Zombies Course begins October 1st! Sign up to learn about zombies in film, comics, and prose, and find out why zombies are the present day’s favourite monsters.
The Zombies Course begins October 1st! Sign up to learn about zombies in film, comics, and prose, and find out why zombies are the present day’s favourite monsters.
Zombies are modern monsters. Although reanimated corpses and spectres appear in older stories, the zombie as we understand it now did not appear in fiction until the twentieth-century. In this course we will explore film, prose, and comic books to explain what zombie stories tell us about our own times.
Check our calendar to find out what's coming up next!
Find out what’s coming up next by checking our Calendar!
Find out what’s coming up next by checking our Calendar!
The Dracula Course is Beginning Soon!
The Dracula Course is beginning September 10th. Come read the foundational text of modern vampire mythology, and explore the strange and repressed mindset of Victorian England!
The Dracula Course is beginning September 10th. Come read the foundational text of modern vampire mythology, and explore the strange and repressed mindset of Victorian England!
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is both a compelling story and a microcosm of Victorian fixations, hangups, obsessions, anxieties. Dracula has stalked the imagination of both literary and popular culture since its publication in 1897, as attested by its enduring popularity and the scores of adaptations that have been made since. Come read this novel with me, and discover both what is so seductive and what is so repulsive about Dracula.
The Medieval Werewolves Course
The Medieval Werewolves Course begins August 20th! Sign up and discover why werewolves are the most chivalrous of monsters!
The Medieval Werewolves Course begins August 20th! Sign up and discover why werewolves are the most chivalrous of monsters!
Stories of shapeshifters and werewolves go back centuries. Anglo-Norman writer Marie de France writes about Bisclavret in the twelfth century, but although her werewolf is the best-known it is not the only, or even the first tale of werewolf knights in the middle ages. In this course we will discover a number of medieval werewolves, from the moving to the horrifying, and begin to understand what makes werewolves so compelling.