Karen Feldman is Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. At the Academy, Feldman is working on a book project entitled “The Rhetoric of Moralizing: On Affect, Epistemology, and ‘Knowing Better.’” The project considers the rhetorical, epistemic, and affective dimensions of moralizing, which she describes as “an appeal to right principles and the certainty of one’s own judgment, couched in a typically high-handed affective mode.”