Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. Dr. Hwang has founded a new field, Creatrix Studies, based on her research of Ceto-Ceto-Magoism, the Whale Guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix and currently directs the graduate and continuing education online programs in Creatrix Studies.
She is scholar, activist, and advocate of Ceto-Magoism, the Whale Guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix. She earned an MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, California. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies specializing in Korean Buddhism at UCLA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr, Hwang has co-founded, directed, co-edited, written for the academic journal, S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies, the Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://magoism.net), Mago Academy (https://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://magobook.com).
Since 2024, she is co-organizing an annual conference, Creatrix Studies Online Conference as well as Creatrix Studies Forums and She Rises Salons apart from the events including Mago Whale Pilgrimage to Korea, Nine Mago Celebrations, and New Year/Solstice Celebrations. See Mago Work Projects.
Her recent books and articles on Ceto-Magoism are found here. See Ceto-Magoism Sources.
She has co-edited and published She Summons: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2022), Budoji Workbook Series (Mago Books, since 2020), Mago Almanac Planner (since 2020, annual), Goddesses in Myth, History, and Culture, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2018), She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015), She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016), and She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3 (Mago Books, 2019). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2016), Mago Almanac: The 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Mago Books, 2018 and 2019).
Dr. Hwang leads Mago Pilgrimage to Korea annually and gives lectures internationally. Hwang advocates peace and connection of all beings as WE in S/HE through the Primordial Knowing, the consciousness of Mago (the Great Mother). She also facilitates an ongoing cross-cultural discussion group on Facebook named The Mago Circle (https://www.facebook.com/groups/magoism/).
Prior to returning to her graduate studies, Hwang, among other publications, translated and published Mary Daly’s first two books, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation (Seoul: Ewha Woman’s University Press, 1996) and The Church and the Second Sex (Seoul: Women’s Newspaper Press, 1997), into Korean. That was after she worked and lived as a member of Maryknoll Sisters, U.S.-based Catholic overseas missionary organization, in Korea, U.S. and the Philippines. She is a poet, visionary, and philosopher by birth and training.