Rachel Greenwald Smith is Professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Rachel’s work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Post45 Peer Reviewed, American Literature, Mediations, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. Other projects include two edited collections, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, co-edited with Mitchum Huehls (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), and American Literature in Transition: 2000-2010 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as a forthcoming special issue of American Literary History on Democracy and the U.S. Novel, co-edited with Gordon Hutner.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Rachel lives in Saint Louis.
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