Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD is a higher education administrator and professor, noetic learning theorist, folklorist, and poet, as well as an executive leadership consultant. He has researched international stories, beliefs, and manifestations of the mythic imagination. Trained in folklore and folk life, English and American literature, and depth psychology, he is an authority on archetypal images and symbols. He taught  the liberal arts and humanities, fairy tales, myths, comparative religions, and folk belief systems at several universities, as well as at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, New York.

Peter is former Provost , Vice  President of Academic Affairs, and Accreditation Liaison Officer at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. He served as Chief Academic Officer and Tenured Professor of Liberal Arts at University of the West, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Antioch University Seattle, and Dean of the School of Holistic Studies, John F. Kennedy University, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at The Juilliard School. He received his doctoral degree in Folklore & Folk Life from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.

His published articles on folk and popular beliefs and related anomalous cognitive experiences are based on field study and interviews with experiencers of high strangeness and the deep weird. His folklore scholarship on the enigmatic Men in Black phenomenon and extraordinary encounters with non-human entities is highly sighted in the humanistic-social science literature. He was invited to Dharamsala, India by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to present his research on noetic folk wisdom .

A frequent speaker on arts education, Peter has lectured on poetic extra-rational knowing and noetic literacy at the Royal Society of Arts, London, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, and The Juilliard School, New York. He conducted teacher-training classes at the Nashville Center for the Arts. A recipient of the Worcester Poetry Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Prize: Honorable Mention, his poetry has appeared in literary journals and magazines, including Knock, Rattapallax, Tendril, Worcester Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Penn Review, and Gargoyle.