Brian A. Dixon is a writer, 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. His short fiction has since appeared in the pages of newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, including Zahir, A Thousand Faces, and Honeyguide. His drama has been seen Off-Broadway.

His imaginative stories span genres, representing historical fiction, alternate history, speculative fiction, magical realism, mystery, and literary fiction.

Dixon is also a scholar specializing in cultural studies who has written and presented on subjects including nineteenth-century American literature, multimedia in the classroom, the history of the spy thriller, detectives in film and fiction, ethnic humor in British sitcoms, and archetypes in comic books. He teaches English, philosophy, and film at Goodwin University and has served as assistant editor of the scholarly journal ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly and as editor of the literary magazine Revelation: Apocalyptic Art and Literature.

Dixon is the author of Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast: James Bond and the Body (2025) and has contributed to Excavating Indiana Jones: Essays on the Films and Franchise (2020). He has edited volumes including Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis (2024), the acclaimed television retrospective Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium (2012), and Columbia & Britannia: An Alternate History (2009), nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.