Matthew T. Dickerson is an American academic working as a professor of computer science at Middlebury College in Vermont.
[1] A scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien's literary work and the Inklings, Dickerson is by his own account a novelist, newspaper columnist, blues musician, historian of music, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper.
from Dartmouth College in 1985[1] and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University, under the supervision of Dexter Kozen, in 1989.
[8][9] He plays bass in a Vermont-based blues band, Deep Freyed.
[18] a work of historical fiction, translated into German as Licht uber Friesland,[19] Hammers and Nails: The Life and Music of Mark Heard,[20] a biography of musician Mark Heard,[21] and From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy.