Donovan Schaefer is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke, 2015) drew links between affect theory, evolutionary biology, and the study of power. His second book, Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke, 2022) argues for a rejection of the feeling/thinking binary and considers the implications of this shift for how we understand a range of topics from science and secularism to racism and conspiracy theory.