Rachel Greenwald Smith is a nonfiction writer and scholar working at the intersection of aesthetic and political theory. Originally from Portland, OR, she lives in St. Louis and is a professor of English at Saint Louis University.
Smith is author of On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal (Graywolf Press, 2021), which was supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Their essays have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Smith's scholarship includes Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and 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, 2018).
At MacDowell, Greenwald Smith began work on a new nonfiction book project. The book is a follow up to Smith's first work of creative nonfiction, On Compromise.
