Christopher Vaccaro, Ph. D. is a professor of English at University of Vermont, where he once taught a course, "Tolkien's Middle-earth". He specializes in Medieval literature and Beowulf, and has overseen two publications of essay collections on J.R.R. Tolkien and the Middle-earth legendarium: The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium in 2013, and Tolkien and Alterity: The New Middle Ages, with Yvette Kisor, in 2017.
He is active at numerous Tolkien seminars and conferences, being director of Tolkien in Vermont. He is a preceptor and has lectured at Signum University, an online school offering Tolkien courses founded by Corey Olsen.