This journal exists because mythology demands it. The study of myth today spans disciplines, methodologies, and cultural traditions in ways that no single department or scholarly society has adequately housed. Depth psychologists read the same narratives as media theorists. Folklorists and game designers occupy overlapping territory. Feminist scholars and symbolic anthropologists arrive at the same foundational texts from different directions and discover, often to their mutual surprise, that they have been asking versions of the same question. Professional mythologists need a home for this work: an academically rigorous, peer-reviewed journal capacious enough to hold the full range of contemporary mythological scholarship while maintaining the standards that make such scholarship trustworthy. The Journal of Mythology aims to be that home. We are not a journal of any single methodology or theoretical commitment. Instead, we are a big tent, and we intend to keep it open."