Mark Greif

Mark Greif is the co-editor, co-founder, and contributor to the magazine n+1, as well as a frequent contributor to American Prospect and occasional contributor to the London Review of Books.

Background and education

Greif attended the Commonwealth School in Boston. In 1992, he attended a Telluride Association Summer Program. He 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 currently an assistant professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, New School University, in New York City.^[1]

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^[2]. Greif has served as both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on a wide variety of topics: politics, sociology, Radiohead.^[3] In 2010, he described the journal's mission: “We are creating a long print archive in an era of the short sound bite.”^[4]

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. He contributed a chapter to the book Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive (Chicago: Open Court, 2009).

References

1. ^ http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=19330
2. ^ Susan Hodara, "Intellectual Entrepreneurs: A highbrow journal rises in an era of sound bites," Harvard Magazine, January-February, 2010.
3. ^ n + 1 Archive Mark Greif
4. ^ Susan Hodara, Harvard Magazine, January-February, 2010.

Works by Greif

Articles in n+1

• Against Exercise, Fall 2004.
• Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, Fall 2004.
• The Concept of Experience, 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, 2010

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"

External links

• 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 19th, 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).

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