# Joseph Campbell

American mythologist who mapped the archetypal hero's journey across world cultures via the monomyth framework.

**Lived:** 1904–1987 (b. White Plains, New York)
**Nationality:** American
**Training:** BA English literature Columbia University 1925; MA medieval literature Columbia University 1927; independent study Sanskrit, Old French, Provençal at University of Paris and University of Munich
**Affiliation:** Professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College; comparative mythology and comparative religion

## Key works

- *The Hero with a Thousand Faces* (1949)
- *Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume I* (1959)
- *Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II* (1962)
- *Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume III* (1964)
- *Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume IV* (1968)
- *The Power of Myth* (1988)