THE WOMAN BEHIND THE MYTH

Jessica

Scholar. Storyteller. Teacher. Creator.

A multidisciplinary mythologist working across scholarship, performance, writing, teaching, archetypal practice and handmade creation.

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BIOGRAPHY

One inquiry, many disciplines.

Jessica Heilig Montanez Prince is a mythologist, Jungian scholar-practitioner, writer, performer, screenwriter, teacher and creator. Her work centers comparative mythology, the divine feminine, the Crone archetype, depth psychology, feminist myth criticism and the ways inherited stories shape lived experience.

Her creative practice moves between scholarship and the stage, between theory and the body, between archive and invention. She is interested in forms of knowledge that are difficult to contain within a single discipline and in making intellectual work public, performative and alive.

The Scholar

Myth & Depth Psychology

Doctoral research in Mythological Studies with a focus on the Crone, divine feminine and cultural memory.

The Storyteller

Stage & Screen

Professional acting, screenwriting, theatre-making, producing and story development.

The Teacher

Learning as Encounter

Teaching across language, theatre, storytelling and myth with an emphasis on participation and many ways of knowing.

The Creator

Public Praxis

Podcasting, essays, social media, workshops and Myth & Whimsy extend scholarship into everyday culture.

The Method

Pattern Recognition

Holding symbolic, historical, embodied and creative evidence together without pretending they are the same kind of claim.

The Question

What Have We Forgotten?

The recurring thread: what becomes visible when we question the stories we inherited as reality?