Brian A. Dixon (born April 19, 1980) is an American author, cultural studies scholar, and media critic. His first published short story, "The McMillen Golf Penalty," was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by '' Connecticut Review'' in 2002. He has since published short fiction in a number of outlets in addition to work on plays and novels. As a scholar, he has written and edited books and essays on cultural studies, with a focus on fiction, television, and film.

Biography

Dixon was born in

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in 1980. He was educated at the

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, where he received his MA (English) and PhD (English), completing a dissertation on representations of the human body in the novels of

Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his ...

. He studied under literary scholar Josie P. Campbell and served as the Assistant Editor of ''ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly''. Dixon's scholarly research focuses on

cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

and

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, exploring ideas related to genre studies, adaptation studies, and canon formation with an emphasis on evolving narratives in fiction, television, and film. He has also published short fiction in various genres, including historical fiction, alternate history, speculative fiction, superhero fiction, and magical realism. Dixon served as the editor of ''Revelation'' (2003-2012), an independent literary magazine publishing apocalyptic fiction. '' Columbia & Britannia'' (2009), an

alternate history Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As ...

anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain, was nominated for the 2010

Sidewise Award for Alternate History The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year. Overview The awards take their name from the 1934 short story " Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in w ...

. Dixon and Chamberlain are also the editors of ''Back to Frank Black'' (2012), a volume of original essays and interviews celebrating Chris Carter's ''

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''.

Bibliography

Edited Books

* ''Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis'', with Randy Laist
Fourth Horseman Press
2024) * ''Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter's Millennium'', with Adam Chamberlain ( Fourth Horseman Press, 2012) * ''Columbia & Britannia: An Alternate History'', with Adam Chamberlain (Fourth Horseman Press, 2009)

References

External links

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