Patrick Fessenbecker is a teaching faculty member of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience (Edinburgh 2020), and his academic research has appeared in journals like New Literary History, English Literary History, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Victorian Studies. He has also written public scholarship for venues like the Stanford Arcade, the Academe blog, and most recently Public Books. His research addresses a variety of topics in the interdisciplinary spaces between literature, philosophy, and the history of ideas, with a particular eye towards the complexities of human moral life. Not least among those complexities are the varieties of duties we have towards those we love, a normative arena he is currently exploring personally with the help of his wife and two children. His interests include a life-long fascination with fantasy fiction, playing the guitar, and a love-hate relationship with the board game Diplomacy.