Wes Kisting is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University. His scholarly work explores how 16th and 17th-century ideas about the conscience enabled literary authors such as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton to participate in shaping modern views about power, authority, and our inward sense of self. He is married to a talented wife who develops data visualization tools for the Iowa Hospital Association, and together, they have three daredevil girls, ages 10, 8, and 6 who have hiked the entire Georgia section of the Appalachian Trail. In his spare time, he enjoys a wide variety of creative hobbies, including boat building. Currently, he is two-and-a-half years into the completion of his fifth and largest boat—a 28’ trailerable houseboat—which started out as a promise to build his daughters a clubhouse.