Monday, January 27, 2014 LC 317, 4:00 p.m.
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. He is currently Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School for Liberal Arts.
Greif attended the Commonwealth School in Boston. 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 Ph.D. in American studies from Yale.
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.”
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).