Writing

Below is a sampling of my academic and public writing:

“American Jewish Writers and the Eastern Bloc: The Dissident Generation.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, edited by Greg Barnhisel, pp. 113-130. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

“The Ends of Human Rights in US Literary Studies.” American Literary History, vol. 31, no. 2, 2019, pp. 356–368.

“On Arendt, Kafka, and the Uses of Misreading.” Symposium on Lyndsey Stonebridge’s Placeless People. Humanity:An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. 3 September 2019. http://humanityjournal.org/blog/on-arendt-kafka-and-the-uses-of-misreading/

“Word Power,” Review of Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 7, 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/word-power/

“Revisiting the PEN-Charlie Hebdo Controversy a Year Later,” Public Books, April 1, 2016. https://www.publicbooks.org/revisiting-the-pen-charlie-hebdo-controversy-one-year-later/

“Philip Roth’s Other Europe: Counter-Realism and the Late Cold War.” American Literary History, vol. 27, no. 4, 2015, pp. 717-740.