Mark Greif

Mark Greif is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. His scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics, and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming to Stanford in 2018. He is the author of The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 (Princeton University Press, 2015) which received 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 Against Everything: Essays (Pantheon, 2016) was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Criticism. He has been a Marshall Scholar, and has received fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.