Lin Atnip teaches in the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago; she was previously a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at University of California-Santa Barbara (2019-2021) and a Tutor at St. John’s College (2022-2024). Her scholarly book, From Tragedy to Apocalypse in American Literature, was published by Lexington in 2024. Her poetry and short fiction appear in New Ohio Review and St. Petersburg Review, and she is at work on her second (and third) novel.

Previous education: University of Chicago (Undergraduate)

Intellectual interests: Artistic and literary modernism; Social theory, particularly of art and/in modernity; Film; Philosophical film and literary criticism

Dissertation title: "From Tragic Form to Apocalyptic Reality in Four American Works: Toward an Epistemological Theory and Practice of Reading" (completed 2019)

External Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lin-atnip-160423/ 
• https://johnscollege.academia.edu/LindsayAtnip