Philip Liston-Kraft is a graduate of Harvard College and holds degrees in medicine and law from Tufts University and Harvard Law School respectively. He spent the major part of his career working in the pharmaceutical industry and is now a fifth year doctoral student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard. His dissertation topic is the portrayal of the physician in German texts of the 12^th and 13^th centuries. His most recent publication is a chapter entitled “Death Drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim,” in Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures, edited by Christopher Vaccaro (Manchester: Manchester U. Press, 2022), 347-381. Philip is one half of the Liston-Kraft/Weiser Piano Duo.