Mark Greif


Mark Greif is an author, educator and cultural critic. His most recent book is Against Everything. 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.
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Background and education

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.

Stanford

Greif is associate professor of English at Stanford University.
Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history.

n+1

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. Greif has served as both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on a wide variety of topics: politics, sociology, Radiohead. In 2010, he described the journal's mission: “We are creating a long print archive in an era of the short sound bite.”

Criticism

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.

Works by Greif

Books
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
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Reviews
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