Raina Bhagat (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. Her current research examines energy and race in contemporary dystopian science fiction from the United States, Russia and the former Soviet republics, and South Asia. In her project, she makes connections between Cold War atomic histories and modern-day dystopian imaginings of nuclear winters and climate change, which depict the disruption of social and racial hierarchies and the exploitation of natural resources. Her main areas of interest are energy and environmental humanities, critical race and ethnic studies, and the Global South.  When she is not writing, she also works and organizes with the South Asian community at Northwestern and in the Chicagoland area, and during her time at Northwestern, Raina founded and served as President for the Subcontinent Project, which works in and around South Asian culture and politics.