Brian Attebery (born December 1951) is an American writer and emeritus professor of English and philosophy at Idaho State University.
Attebery was born in December 1951,[1][2] and received a doctorate in American Civilization from Brown University in 1979.
[3] He is professor of English at Idaho State University, and the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
Attebery suggests that fantasy is a "fuzzy set" with no easily discernible boundaries, in contrast to the genre of science fiction.
[4] He retired from Idaho State University in April 2022 and was named an emeritus professor in the Department of English and Philosophy.