Mark Greif

Mark Greif (born 1975) 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.
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.
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"
Reviews
Web