Dr. Mark Greif

Biography

Mark Greif is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stanford University, holding a courtesy appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature. His scholarly work investigates the connections between literature, intellectual history, cultural history, popular arts, and the aesthetics of everyday ethics. Mark has taught at prominent institutions including the New School and Brown University before joining Stanford. He is the author of 'Age of Crisis: Man, Thought, Fiction in America, 1933-1973' (Princeton, 2015), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the Susanne M. Glasscock Prize for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. His book 'Everything: Essays' (Pantheon, 2016) was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Criticism. His current research focuses on the history of aesthetics and pornography from the eighteenth century to the internet age. In 2003, Greif founded the journal n+1, of which he is a principal member, and has edited notable collections including 'Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America' (Verso, 2011) and 'Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation' (n+1/HarperCollins, 2010). His writings have appeared in well-known publications such as the London Review of Books, the New York Guardian, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and he has been awarded fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Mark is also affiliated with the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and his work reflects an ongoing interest in the relationships between high scholarship, literary arts, journalism, and low culture.

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