Sherry L. Ackerman is an American academic and dressage clinician. She is an active scholar with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies and has authored numerous papers and journal articles. In 2008, Ackerman published Behind the Looking Glass, offering another perspective in the contemporary deconstruction of the "Carroll Myth". The book offers a thorough examination of the nineteenth century Neoplatonic Revival in Great Britain, with special emphasis upon its influence on the writings of Lewis Carroll: conciliatory points between revived Neoplatonism, theosophy and spiritualism are identified. Ackerman is affiliated with ContrariWise: The Association for New Lewis Carroll Studies. Dodgson biographer Morton N. Cohen, in a recent article in the Times Literary Supplement labeled