Matthew T. Dickerson

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Matthew Dickerson
Academic background
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  • PhD)
Academic work
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InstitutionsMiddlebury College

Matthew T. Dickerson is an American academic working as a professor of

fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper.[2]

Education

Dickerson received an A.B. from

symbolic computation, but since then he has worked primarily in computational geometry; his most frequently cited computer science papers[4] concern k-nearest neighbors algorithm[5] and minimum-weight triangulation.[6] Dickerson has been on the Middlebury College faculty since receiving his Ph.D.[2]

Career

From 1997 to 2001, Dickerson published a biweekly column on fishing and the outdoors in the Addison Independent, a local newspaper.[7] Since 2002, he has been the director of the New England Young Writers Conference,[8] an annual four-day conference for high school students in Bread Loaf, Vermont, that is associated with Middlebury College. He is also the founding director of the Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts.[8][9] He plays bass in a Vermont-based blues band, Deep Freyed.[10]

Tolkien scholarship

Dickerson is the author of six non-technical books, most of them about

Patrick Curry writes that it is "a major new contribution to the subject of Tolkien's work".[15]

Other books

His other books include The Finnsburg Encounter.[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.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty profile Archived 2006-09-13 at the Wayback Machine at Middlebury College, retrieved 2009-11-19.
  2. ^ a b Biography as an invited speaker at the 19th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Tufts University, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  3. ^ Dickerson's research web page Archived 2009-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at Middlebury College, retrieved 2009-11-18.
  4. ^ According to a Google scholar search, 2009-11-19.
  5. doi:10.1142/S0218195992000147
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  6. S2CID 18962760
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  7. ^ Dickerson's Vermont fishing articles Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine from his Middlebury College web site. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  8. ^ a b Biography Archived 2010-06-11 at the Wayback Machine as a featured speaker at the Fall 2009 Houghton College Writing Festival. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  9. ^ About us Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine, Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  10. ^ Deep Freyed Blues Band Archived 2011-02-02 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  11. ISBN 978-1-58743-085-5
  12. ^ Reviews of Following Gandalf: Review by David O'Hara (2004), Christianity Today; Review by Gregory S. Bucher Archived 2009-12-31 at the Wayback Machine (2004), Journal of Religion and Society; Review by Augustine J. Curley (2003), Library Journal; Review by Rudy Regehr Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (2006), Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.
  13. ^ Past finalists for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine, from the web site of the Mythopoeic Society. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  14. ISBN 978-0-8131-2418-6
  15. ^
    doi:10.1093/isle/15.1.266
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  16. ISBN 978-0-8131-2522-0
  17. ^ Reviews of ''Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: Review by Charles C. Nash Archived 2009-01-18 at the Wayback Machine (2008), Library Journal; Jason Peters, The Natural in the Light of the Supernatural (2010), The Review of Politics; Elizabeth Blum, Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol (2010), Environmental History; Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira, Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol (2011), Rocky Mountain Review; Charles A. Huttar, Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol (2009), The C.S. Lewis Journal.
  18. ISBN 978-0-89107-604-9
  19. ISBN 3-89437-422-5
  20. ISBN 978-0-940895-49-2
  21. ^ Review of Hammers and Nails: Review by Chris Macintosh (2003), The Phantom Tollbooth.
  22. ISBN 978-1-58743-133-3
  23. ^ Review of From Homer to Harry Potter: Review by Gregory Hartley (2007), Christianity and Literature.
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