Dr. Tracy Llanera is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She is author of Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020) and co-author of A Philosophical Defence of Nihilism (2021). Tracy works at the intersection of philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, and pragmatism, specializing on the topics of nihilism, conversion, extremism, and the politics of language.