Steven Knepper is the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond (SUNY 2022), editor of A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible (Cascade, 2024), and coauthor of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2024).