Matthew Dickerson (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, a writer, and the director of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf. His previous works include "From Homer to Harry Potter"; "The Mind and the Machine"; "Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis"; and "Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R.R. Tolkien."