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Lindsay Atnip is a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Humanities and Social Change and an Instructor in the Basic Program. She received her PhD in 2019 from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, specializing in the philosophy of literature and twentieth-century American literature, especially “modern apocalyptic” fiction and poetry. She holds a BA in Economics and an MA in Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Her academic interests include Western literature, literary theory, and philosophy of literature, film, classic social theory, and philosophy. Ms. Atnip joined the Basic Program in 2015.