Mark Greif

Mark Greif (born 1975^[1]) is an author, educator and cultural critic. His most recent book is Against Everything.^[2] One of the co-founders of n+1, he is a frequent contributor to the magazine and writes for numerous other publications. Greif currently teaches English at Stanford University.

Greif received a BA in History and Literature from Harvard in 1997, after which he received a Marshall Scholarship, which he used to study British Literature and 19th and 20th century American Literature at Oxford through 1999. He holds a PhD in American studies from Yale.

Greif is associate professor of English at Stanford University.^[3]

Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history (2015).^[4]

In the fall of 2004, along with fellow writers and editors Keith Gessen, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel, and Marco Roth, Greif launched the literary journal n + 1.^[5] Greif has served as both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on a wide variety of topics: politics, sociology, Radiohead.^[6] In 2010, he described the journal's mission: “We are creating a long print archive in an era of the short sound bite.”^[7]

Greif's criticism is marked by a willingness to address pop culture, conservative books, and leftist academic critical theory, and to link these to literature and larger questions of culture.^[8]

Books

• The Age of the Crisis of Man, 2015^[1]
• Against Everything: Essays, 2016

Articles in n+1

• "Against Exercise," Fall 2004.
• "Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy," Fall 2004.
• "The Concept of Experiences," Spring 2005.
• "Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop," Fall 2005.
• "Afternoon of the Sex Children," Winter 2006, reprinted as 'Children of the Revolution', Harpers Magazine November 2006
• "Notes From An Occupation" (the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators), with Astra Taylor, Fall, 2011

Reviews

• "On Giorgio Agamben: Apocalypse Deferred," Spring 2005.
• "On Reality TV," Fall 2005.
• "The Hipster in the Mirror", New York Times, November 12, 2010.

Web

• "The Tattoo"

• New School - Bio as assistant professor, Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College
• n+1 magazine - The magazine that Greif edits and frequently contributes to
• Articles by Mark Greif from the London Review of Books.
• Articles by Mark Greif from The American Prospect.
• Mark Greif on Mark McGurl, The Program Era
• Mark Greif on Hannah Arendt from Dissent, Spring 2004.
• Mark Greif on Michel Houellebecq from Dissent, Fall 2003.
• "Digging for Goldwater" Very short review by Greif, The Village Voice, (April 19, 2001).
• "Schnitzler on Tap" Very short review by Greif in The Village Voice, (January 30 - February 5, 2002).
• "The Great American Novel" - An audio discussion between Greif, James Wood, and Lydon, in response to The New York Times Book Review solicited top twenty-five best books of the last quarter-century, (May 23, 2006).