Rae Greiner is an Associate Professor with the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is co-editor of the journal Victorian Studies.
Her broad area of study is the British nineteenth century, where she specializes in the theory and history of the novel. Her first book, Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Johns Hopkins 2012), considers nineteenth-century fiction in relation to Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments to argue for the development of a literary realism for which sympathetic protocols are necessary for confirming and maintaining social reality. Her book in progress, Stupidity After Enlightenment, is a study of stupidity’s value for scientists and artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.