Brian A. Dixon

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 Connecticut in 1980. He was educated at the University of Rhode Island, where he received his MA (English) and PhD (English), completing a dissertation on representations of the human body in the novels of Ian Fleming. 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 and media, 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 anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain, was nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Dixon and Chamberlain are also the editors of Back to Frank Black (2012), a volume of original essays and interviews celebrating Chris Carter's Millennium.

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)