D. Rae Greiner (Email; phone: 812-856-1808)
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
M.A (1996) and B.S. (1992) in English, Radford University

RESEARCH INTERESTS
The long nineteenth century; Victorian literature; the novel; narrative and aesthetic theory; sympathy, affect, the moral sentiments; queer theory and performance.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PROJECTS
Sympathetic Realism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (book in progress)

“Marjorie Garson, Moral Taste: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth- Century Novel ” (review), Victorian Studies, forthcoming.

“Linda Austin, Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917” (review), Romantic Circles Review, forthcoming.

“Laura Frost, Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism” (review), Journal of the History of Sexuality 12.4 (2003) 644-647.

“Negative Response: Silence in Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces,” Women’s Studies:An Interdisciplinary Journal 29 (2000): 217-48.

PARTIAL LIST OF CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS:
“Realism in The Lifted Veil: The Material Consequences of Success,” 5 th Annual NAVSA Conference, University of Victoria 2007

The Victorian Job Market: News from the Front (panel), The Dickens Universe, UCSC 2007

New Approaches to the Novel (panel), UC Berkeley 2007

“Sympathy as Style: In the Case of Dickens,” VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western US), Pepperdine University 2006

“Adam Smith’s Narrative Sympathy,” Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures Conference, UC Berkeley 2006

“In the Case of Sympathy,” 4 th Annual NAVSA Conference, Purdue University 2006

“Sympathetic Realism and Exemplarity in Persuasion, or the Case of Anne and Wentworth,” The Dickens Universe Weekend Conference, “Urbanity, Urbanism and the Nineteenth Century Novel,” UC Santa Cruz 2006

“Baulked,” The Dickens Project Winter Conference, UCLA 2006

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
Center for British Studies Grant , UC Berkeley 2006
Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellow , UC Berkeley, 2003
Dean’s Academic Progress Fellowship , UC Berkeley, 2002-3
Dean's Academic Progress Award , UC Berkeley, 2002
Kurtz Prize , UC Berkeley, April 2001
John Cady Fellowship , Ohio University, 1999-2000 (declined)