Steve Knepper is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. His main areas of expertise are philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and American literature.  He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond, which was published in 2022 by SUNY Press and will soon be re-released as a paperback, and he is currently editing A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible.  His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in several journals.