I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

Professor, writer, orator and mythologist                          

Selected Works:

Books:

Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremonial - 1943 with Jeff King and Maud Oakes, Old Dominion Foundation
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake - 1944 with Henry Morton Robinson, Harcourt, Brace & Co.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - 1949. Pantheon Books. Princeton University Press 1968 -  Bollingen 2004 commemorative hardcover: New World Library, 3rd Edition, 2008

The Masks of God - 1959–1968
Volume 1, Primitive Mythology - 1959
Volume 2, Oriental Mythology - 1962
Volume 3, Occidental Mythology - 1964
Volume 4, Creative Mythology - 1968

The Flight of the Wild Gander:Explorations in the Mythological Dimension - 1968
Myths to Live By - 1972
Erotic irony and mythic forms in the art of Thomas Mann - 1973
The Mythic Image - 1974
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion - 1986

Historical Atlas of World Mythology
Volume I: The Way Of The Animal Powers - 1983
reprint in two parts: Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers - 1988
Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt - 1988

Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth
Part 1: The Sacrifice - 1988
Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The North Americas - 1989
Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas - 1989. Harper & Row

Transformations of Myth Through Time - 1990
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living - 1991
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce - 1993
The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays - 1959–1987 - 1993
Baksheesh & Brahman: Indian Journals - 1954–1955 - 1995
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor - 2001 First volume in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
Sake & Satori: Asian Journals—Japan - 2002
Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal - 2003
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation - 2004

Interview books:

The Power of Myth - 1988 with Bill Moyers
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms - 1989
This business of the gods: Interview with Fraser Boa - 1989
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work - 1990 Element Books 1999 

Audio tapes
The Power of Myth - With Bill Moyers - 1987
Transformation of Myth through Time Volume 1–3 - 1989
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Cosmogonic Cycle - Read by Ralph Blum - 1990
The Way of Art - 1990 - unlicensed
The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell Volume 1–9 - With Michael Toms - 1993
On the Wings of Art: Joseph Campbell; Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce - 1995
The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell - With Michael Toms - 1997

The Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell:

Volume 1: Mythology and the Individual - 1997
Volume 2: The Inward Journey - 1997
Volume 3: The Eastern Way - 1997
Volume 4: Man and Myth - 1997
Volume 5: The Myths and Masks of God - 1997
Volume 6: The Western Quest - 1997
Myth and Metaphor in Society - With Jamake Highwater - abridged- 2002

Video/DVDs:

Psyche & Symbol - 12 part telecourse, Bay Area Open College, 1976
Transformations of Myth Through Time - 1989
Mythos - 1987/1998
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth - 1988
The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell - 1987 - Phil Cousineau
Myth and Metaphor in Society - With Jamake Highwater - 1993
Sukhavati - 2005

Books edited by Joseph Campbell:

Gupta, Mahendranath. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - 1942 - translation from Bengali by Swami Nikhilananda; Joseph Campbell and Margaret Woodrow Wilson, translation assistants - see preface; foreword by Aldous Huxley
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Heinrich Zimmer - 1946
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil. Heinrich Zimmer - 1948
Philosophies of India. Heinrich Zimmer - 1951
The Portable Arabian Nights - 1951
The Art of Indian Asia. Heinrich Zimmer - 1955
Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
The Mystic Vision: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
Spirit and Nature: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Various authors - 1954–1969
Myths, Dreams, Religion. Various authors - 1970
The Portable Jung. Carl Jung - 1971.

                          

Spoke French, German, Latin and Japanese.                          

Best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.