Introduction
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 teaches literature at the New School University in New York City.
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.
The New School
Greif is associate professor of literary studies at The New School in New York City.
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, leftist academic critical theory, and link these to literature and larger questions of culture.
Works by Greif
Books
- The Age of the Crisis of Man, 2015
- 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.
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