Irina Dumitrescu

Irina Dumitrescu teaches medieval literature at the University of Bonn, and writes about literature, food, immigration, and dance.

Dumitrescu is the editor of Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, a collection of essays and poems on the humanities in times of crisis. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Atlantic, Longreads, Politico Europe, Yale Review, Southwest Review, Petits Propos Culinaires, Zócalo Public Square, and the Washington Post.

Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the James Beard Foundation’s MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, has received the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for nonfiction, and been reprinted in Best American Essays 2016 and Best Food Writing 2017.