Memoir

“Modul de supraviețuire” / Scena9
“The Professor” / Longreads
“Tongue Stuck” / The Rumpus
“Trash” / The Dalhousie Review
“How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries” / Longreads
“Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction” / Literary Hub
“Home truths: A dispatch from Germany” / Times Literary Supplement
“O limbă lipită de cerul gurii” / Scena9
“Reading Lessons” How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound. Eds. Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Reprinted in Longreads)
“The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating” / Serious Eats
“An Unreliable Alchemy” / The Marginalia Review of Books
“Swan, Late: The Unexpected Joys of Adult Beginner Ballet” Longreads 
“The Things We Take, The Things We Leave Behind” / Southwest Review (Romanian in Scena9)
“Dance, Mama” / The Manifest-Station
“My Father and the Wine.” The Yale Review (reprinted in Best American Essays 2016; Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing)
“Currywurst” / Petits Propos Culinaires
“Tasting Texas” / Southwest Review 

Flash & Fiction

“Line” / Brevity Magazine (The Humble Essayist)
“Shift” / The Enneadecameron

Criticism

“The rest of the iceberg: Three guides to writing personal narrative” / TLS
“Scratch the surface: What psoriasis tells us about social outcasts” / TLS
“Bad Company: A New Novel Strips Away the Veneer of Progressive Rhetoric” / The Walrus
“Different words for blue: How mother tongues are lost and found” / TLS
“A Family Shatters Along With Yugoslavia” / New York Times
“Industrious Habits” / New York Review of Books
“Smell the burn: What is the point of physical exercise?” / TLS
“The Beauty of Imperfection” / Los Angeles Review of Books
“A Heroine’s Journey: On Lana Bastašić’s “Catch the Rabbit”” / LARB
“Don’t Get Too Comfortable” / NYRB
“When You Roast Your Friends in a Book, and One’s Your Landlord” / NYT
“The Flower and the Bee” / London Review of Books
“Let us now tell sad stories: Why we might write about trauma” / TLS
“Dudes Without Heirs” / NYRB
“Time travelling in comfort: An invitation to take guidance from the voices of the past” / TLS
“How to Read Aloud” / LRB
“In Praise of Solitude” / LARB
“Making My Moan” / LRB
“Quiet magic: The best ways to cultivate good writing” / TLS
“Theater of War” / NYT
“Cooking as a profound art: Reflections on the culinary and the literary” / TLS
“Heel turns: The history of modern celebrity” / TLS (Latvian in Rigas Laiks)
“Door Open for Beauty: On Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir” LARB
“Renaissance Man” / NYT (Spanish in El Cultural)
“Physical, cultural, personal: The demands of dance” / TLS
“Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage.” NYT
“Literature as Lifeline: The Exile in “Call Me Zebra”” / LARB

Brief reviews

“Out of the bag: Understanding the strange power that animals exercise over people” / TLS
“Look backwards, fly forwards: A woman searches for her father – and herself – in fictional West Africa” / TLS
“Speaking in Tongues: Paul McQuade’s startling and casually surreal stories about language” / TLS
“Somewhat cheery” / TLS
“Rings of Sarajevo” / TLS
“Stifled by cookie-cutters” / TLS
“Old love, new tricks” / TLS
“Homely ceremonies” / TLS
“Dance Macabre” / TLS
“Dance” / TLS
“Electric conversations: Twenty-five writers reflect on the magazines and journals they have enjoyed over the years” / TLS
“Old English” / TLS 

Column

“Old mischief in new guise: Keeping your focus in the age of distraction” / TLS
“The art of improv: Wobbling through life” / TLS
“Plain speaking: How to write well” / TLS
“Burnout culture: A disconnect between expectation and reality” / TLS
“Beyond the girlboss: On the representation of women” / TLS
“Our debt to pleasure: Nurturing delight in a dangerous world” / TLS

Essays

“The Frenzied Folly of Professorial Groupthink” / The Chronicle of Higher Education Review
“Addressing toxic behaviour is in universities’ interest” / Times Higher Education
“Rereading the Revolt” / Public Books
“Queen Kris” / Avidly
“Are you a toxic enabler?” / THE
“How to Cope With a Fear of Public Writing” / The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer” / Psyche
“Heroism should not be part of the academic job description” / THE
“We’re all Jessica Rabbit Now. Self-fashioning for the YouTube generation” / TLS
“Time to Get Over Your Discomfort With Book Marketing” / The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Improv” / Iberian Connections
“Struggling to exercise upward toxicity? Try toxic hypocrisy” / THE
“What Academics Misunderstand About ‘Public Writing’” / The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity” / THE
“‘Bio-Nazis’ go green in Germany” / Politico Europe
“Teachers and Students” / Aeon
“Appetite (and iron-clad stomach) for success. The art of stuffing yourself while chancellor” / Politico.eu
“The Curious Appeal of ‘Bad’ Food” / The Atlantic (Reprinted in Best Food Writing 2017)
“‘Frivolous’ Humanities Helped Prisoners Survive in Communist Romania” / Zócalo Public Square
“War and the Food of Dreams: An Interview with Cara De Silva” / Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu
“Terpsichore” / Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu
“Why ‘that’ photo mattered this time: Our children could be on that beach, too” / Washington Post
“On the Future of Old English” / In the Middle
“The School’s Embrace.” / This Book is a Class Room, eds. Lucie Kolb and Romy Rüegger
“Hidden Treasures at the Met Museum” / In the Middle

Short pieces

“My worst teaching moment – and what it taught me” / THE
“Are you ready for the return to in-person teaching?” / THE
“Moving mountains: the reforms that would push academia to new heights” / THE
“Life in the Zoomiverse: What we miss about the physical campus” / THE
“Should you be working 100 hours a week?” / THE
“A Place of Absence, Loss, and Transcendence” / Zócalo Public Square