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Tok Thompson was born and raised in rural Alaska. At the age of 17, he began attending Harvard College, where he received his bachelor\u2019s degree in Anthropology. He received a Master\u2019s degree in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley, and three years later received a PhD in Anthropology from the same institution. After receiving his PhD, Tok engaged in a two-year postdoctoral position with the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, where he helped launch a new M.Phil. in Translation Studies. He also researched Irish language traditions in County Fermanagh, and taught classes for the University of Ulster.\xa0

In the Fall of 2006, Tok came to USC, where he has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in folklore and related topics. Additionally, he has taught folklore as a visiting professor at universities in Northern Ireland, Iceland, and Ethiopia. While in graduate school, he co-founded the journal\xa0Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture, which he co-edited for 15 years. From 2013-2017 he was the editor for\xa0Western Folklore. He has recently published two books:\xa0 one of his own research entitled\xa0Posthuman Folklore\xa0(2019) and another (co-authored with Gregory Schrempp) a textbook on World Mythology entitled\xa0The Truth of Myth\xa0(2020). He currently edits the book series\xa0Myth in Theory and Everyday Life\xa0for Oxford University Press.

Please enjoy my conversation with Tok Thompson.

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