Mark Dery

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 and literary journalism 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 identifies his politics as "unrepentantly...