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This is one of six pieces in “Thirty Years of Generation X,” the latest installment in the Thinking With series. Explore the other pieces here:
Thirty Years of Generation X / GenXRountable / Andrew Tate
Thirty Years of Generation X / Generation X Rewind / Makoto Fujimura
Thirty Years of Generation X / Generation Extreme / Shumon Basar
Thirty Years of Generation X / McJobs and Veal Fattening Pens: Work and Futurity in Generation X / Diletta De Cristofaro
Thirty Years of Generation X / Generation X: Deceleration and the Necessity of Narrative / Andrew Tate
Dr. Mary McCampbell is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Lee University in where she teaches courses on contemporary fiction, film, philosophy, and popular culture. Her academic publications focus on the relationship between contemporary fiction, late capitalist culture, and the religious impulse. She also writes on theology and the arts for publications such as Image Journal, The Curator, and The Other Journal. Her first book, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: Empathy, The Arts, and the Religious Imagination is coming out in Fall 2021.