Mark Greif

Mark Greif ( born 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American Americanist, as co-founder and co-editor of n of the literary magazine 1 was known.

Life

Griffin attended the Commonwealth School in Boston in 1992 and took on the Telluride Association Summer Programs part. He graduated at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) mt a BA in History and Literature and went in 1997 with a Marshall Scholarship to 1999 for the study of British and American literature to Oxford in England.

Griffin earned his doctorate in American Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is currently (2012 ) a lecturer in literary studies at Eugene Lang College at the New School University in New York City.

N 1

In autumn 2004, Griffin founded with other writers and editors ( Keith Gessen, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel, Marco Roth), the literary magazine n 1, which appears quarterly. At the magazine he contributes essays also on policy, sociology, etc., at.

Employees in other journals

Griffin writes frequently in the liberal, American, political journal American Prospect and the every 14 days appearing British London Review of Books.

Publications

In N 1:

• Against exercise, Fall 2004

Books:

• As co-editor: Carla Garland include: Occupy! The first few weeks in New York. A documentation. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-06221-0.
• As editor, translated by Kevin Vennemann: Blue Screen: an argument against six backgrounds. Essays. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-12629-5.
• Learn centimes. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-06219-7.
• As co-editor: hipsters. A transatlantic discussion. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-06173-2.