Rachel Greenwald Smith is associate professor of English at Saint Louis University, where she teaches classes on 20th- and 21st-century literature. She is author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism and editor of American Literature in Transition: 2000-2010. She is also co-editor, with Mitchum Huehls, of Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture. Her essays on contemporary politics and aesthetics have appeared in American Literature, The Account, Mediations, and elsewhere.