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.

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.^[3]

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

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.^[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]

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.^[8]