Lydia Griffiths, PhD is a mythologist, fandom scholar, and cultural story interpreter. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Steve Rogers fanfiction and the hero's journey into the underworld and vulnerability.  

Her work explores the ancient stories living inside the ones we can't stop thinking about — bringing the oldest interpretive tools in human history to the stories that shape our everyday lives.

She is co-founder and executive director of the International Society of Mythology and has published and presented widely on popular culture, AI, personal myth, and the mythology of identity.

When not pondering the world she lives in Brooklyn with her family and mythical cats, working on a debut novel.