#1647 - Paul Robichaud

Paul Robichaud is professor and chair of English at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of "Pan: The Great God's Modern Return" which explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; sometimes, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics.