Matthew J. Brown is Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches in philosophy, history of ideas, and humanities. His primary areas of research include history and philosophy of science and engineering, the American pragmatist tradition in philosophy, and comics and pop culture studies. He is the founder of the Comics and Popular Arts Conference, which has taken place concurrently with DragonCon in Atlanta since 2008.