Game of Thrones Course!

The Game Of Thrones Course, with Dr. Mikayla Hunter, begins on May 7!

King Arthur Courses!

Clockworks Academy is very pleased to have three new King Arthur courses coming very soon!

The first, King Arthur: A Fine Romance, is beginning on March 5th! This course will focus on romance, both as a medieval literary genre and in the more general sense of kissing and hugging.

The second King Arthur course, King Arthur: Fight for Right! will be focused on chivalry, kingship, and martial ethics. That course will begin this Spring.

The third course is King Arthur: The Quest For The Holy, which will focus on the Quest for the Holy Grail, and themes of piety, confession, and redemption.

Each course is a stand-alone, but if you take all three you'll end up reading all of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, and have a full picture of the central text of English Arthurian literature.

Students can take the courses in any order, either individually or by purchasing the King Arthur Package.

Coming soon!

The Frankenstein Course is beginning in January!

So is the Zombies Course!

The Decameron Course begins in February!

So does the Robin Hood Course!

So does the Werewolves Course!

New Poetry Chapbook Available

Paul's latest poetry chapbook is available now! You can buy it, in either physical or e-book form!

Find both of Paul's chapbooks here!

Decameron Course Begins October 5th!

Hi everyone! The Decameron Course with Sam Lehman is beginning again soon, and I hope you'll consider joining! It's a fascinating look at a hilarious, thought-provoking, and particularly relevant medieval text! Sign up!

Beowulf Course Begins Soon!

The Beowulf Course at Clockworks Academy is a part of both the Monsters Package and the Medieval Package. Spend eight weeks with Dr. Paul Moffett reading Beowulf , with a particular emphasis on exploring the symbolic meaning of the three central monsters.

Join the Beowulf Course, beginning on July 17th, and find out why this poem has captured its readers’ imaginations for centuries!

Gawain Course Begins Today

The Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Course begins today! I’m so happy to see this new course begin, and I can’t wait to see what the next eight weeks will bring!

Zombies Are Coming!

The Zombies Course from Clockworks Academy is coming soon! Starting in June I’m offering an eight-week course on zombies in fiction, focusing on film, graphic novels, and prose.

Don’t let the zombies in. I know it’s tempting.

This course will look at the pre-history of the modern zombie, zombies as metaphors for infection, prejudice, consumerism, the meaning of the zombie apocalypse, and much more!

Join me, Dr. Paul Moffett as I guide you through some of the zombie stories of the 20th and 21st centuries!

Welcome Sam Lehman

I'm very excited to welcome a new instructor to Clockworks Academy!

Sam Lehman is a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She studies adaptation theory, Arthurian literature, and popular culture, with a focus on the landmark fantasy novel The Mists of Avalon. Beyond academia, Sam has worked as a writer, editor, social media manager, and community manager for various publications and organisations. She has a Master of Arts in English Literature from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Humanities and English from Carleton University.

Sam Lehman well be teaching a new course on Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, beginning April 10. Registration is open now, and it's going to be an absolutely fascinating course!

Welcome Dr. Lauren Chochinov

I am very excited to welcome Dr. Lauren Chochinov to teach a new course at Clockworks Academy!

Dr. Chochinov holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation focused on the representation of Sir Gawain in the Middle English and Middle Scots literature of the late medieval period. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada and teachers courses in communications and literature. In addition to medieval studies, Dr. Chochinov has also presented work on queer identity in comics and graphic novels and has a particular interest in LGBTQ+ representation in popular culture.

Dr. Chochinov will be teaching a new course on the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, beginning in July, 2020, and registration is now open! This is going to be a fantastic course, and you don't want to miss it!

Only Fourteen Days Left To Get 2019 Prices!

The Frankenstein Course and the Medieval Werewolves Course are both starting again in mid-March, but if you register in February you get 2019 prices! February is passing fast away, so act now!

Frankenstein and Werewolves Begin Again in March

I’ve announced here that the new Robin Hood Course is beginning on March 16th. I’m very excited about it, and I hope you’ll sign up.

What I don’t think I have mentioned is that both the Frankenstein Course and the Medieval Werewolves Course will also begin again in mid-March. I’ll confirm the exact date soon, but expect them the both to begin the week of the 16th.

Frankenstein is one of my most popular courses, and I’m looking forward to teaching it again! And the Werewolves Course is full of surprises and I think it’s enormously fascinating.

I hope to see you in one of these three courses!

Welcome Dr. Mikayla Hunter

I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Mikayla Hunter to teach a new course at Clockworks Academy!

Dr. Hunter completed her doctorate in medieval literature at the University of Oxford. She earned her M.A. in medieval studies at the University of Bristol and her B.A. in English literature at Whitman College. She is SEDA-accredited as an instructor of higher education. Her doctoral research focused on outlaw ballads and Middle English romance literature, and she has published academic work in the fields of both medieval literature and modern medievalism, including a chapter in the recently-published Queenship and the Women of Westeros.

Dr. Hunter will be teaching a new course on Robin Hood, beginning March 16, 2020, and you can sign up now. I can't wait to see what Dr. Hunter brings to this course!

All Four Previously Offered Courses Begin Again January 24

Greetings everyone! I’m excited to say that all four of the Clockworks Academy courses I offered in 2019 will be beginning again in just a few weeks, on January 24. Sign up now, and tell your friends!

Happy Holidays from Clockworks Academy!

Classes here at Clockworks Academy will be on break until the New Year, when I hope to re-launch several of my previous courses, and add one or two new ones! I’m working on developing the Zombies course now, so look for that soon!

If you don’t care when things start, the courses are all still available to buy, and I’ll give you a few weeks’ warning before things get going, so you can still buy a course and save your spot any time you like!

Until January, I wish you all the happiest of holidays! May this year end well for you, and the new one start full of promise and possibility!

Paul

The Beowulf Course is On Its Way!

Hi everyone! I’m hard at work building the next Clockworks Academy course, this time focused on Beowulf. Whether you’ve always wondered about Beowulf but have never actually read it, or you read it years ago and want to look more closely, or you’ve read it several times and want a new perspective on it, you’ll find something for you in this course!

The Clockworks Academy Beowulf course is aimed at non-specialists, and we’ll read Beowulf in translation.

Come join us, starting on September 27th!

Writing and Editing Services

I’m very pleased to say that Clockworks Academy is now offering writing and editing services! I have years of professional experience in all kinds of writing, from creative to academic, and now you can take advantage of my expertise. I can:

• Write copy for your business, webpage, pamphlet, brochure, newsletter, bulletin, banner, or cloud-message

• Proofread any kind of professional writing

• Research and write blog posts or articles

• Write a four-point bullet list of things I can write

If you need something written, I can write it!