Irina Dumitrescu teaches medieval literature at the University of Bonn. She has written for The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Southwest Review, Yale Review, Aeon, The Atlantic, Politico Europe, and the Washington Post. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays 2016, Best Food Writing 2017, Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing, and Longreads. Recent books include The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge) and Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi (Punctum). Her work can be found at irinadumitrescu.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Door Open for Beauty: On Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir”
Irina Dumitrescu reflects on Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir.”...
Literature as Lifeline: The Exile in “Call Me Zebra”
“Call Me Zebra” is a filthy love note to literature unabashedly luxuriating in its bookishness....
