Mark Dery
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Mark Dery
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December 24, 1959 Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Cultural critic, freelance journalist, lecturer |
| Nationality | American |
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Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959) is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He writes about "media, the visual landscape, fringe trends, and unpopular culture." From 2001 to 2009, he taught media criticism, literary journalism, and the essay in the Department of Journalism at New York University. In January 2000, he was appointed Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. In summer 2009, he was awarded a scholar-in-residence position at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
In 2010, Publisher's Weekly reported that he was writing a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little, Brown.
Dery was born in Boston, and earned a B.A. from Occidental College in 1982.
He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, Wired, Salon.com, "Suck.com", and Cabinet, among other publications. He has been a featured guestblogger on the pop-tech website Boing Boing. Much of his work has dealt with cyberculture and the cultural effects of the Digital Age.
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