Rock Ethics Institute

Biography

Steve of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a senior Schreyer Honors Scholar and Paterno Fellow double-majoring in English and Psychology who serves as the Nonfiction Coordinator of Kalliope Literary Magazine. He has held several research positions in the humanities, including in the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab, and his writing has won several awards. Steve received an Erickson Discovery Grant his sophomore year to fund his scholarship regarding the literary experience of abnormal psychology in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, and his honors thesis continues analysis in Wallace's fiction. He plans to pursue work in publishing and broadcasting. Rock Ethics Institute faculty member Jeremy Engels is supervising their project “The Art, Science, and Ethics of Breathing.”