Below is a sampling of my academic and public writing:
Essays & Criticism
“The Last Days of the Danube Institute: A Report from Postliberal Budapest”
The Drift, September 2026
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“How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America,” LitHub, July 5, 2023. https://lithub.com/how-franz-kafka-achieved-cult-status-in-cold-war-america/
“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/
Books
The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron Curtain
Harvard University Press, 2023
Winner of the Pamela Jensen Award from the American Political Science Association
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Selected Scholarship
Then perhaps 4–6 academic articles/chapters, not everything you’ve ever published.
“Reading Howl across the Iron Curtain, or Why Our Cold War Ideas About Banned Books,” in Banning Books in America: Not a How-To, edited by Samuel Cohen. Bloomsbury Academy, 2026.
“After Cold War Studies,” American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2025, Pages 172–184, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae129
“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/
“Philip Roth’s Other Europe: Counter-Realism and the Late Cold War.” American Literary History, vol. 27, no. 4, 2015, pp. 717-740.
