Short Writing
Op-Ed
“Let Black Kids Just Be Kids,” New York Times, 26 July 2017, p. A23. Reprinted in Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum, ed. Sarah Lewis, New York: Aperture Foundation, 2019: 60-63
Other Writing
“Being Alive Together: Stephen Sondheim, Omicron, and the Power of Theater,” Harvard Magazine, December 2021
“Jane Clark: A Newly-Available Slave Narrative,” Common-Place 18.1 (Winter 2018)
“‘A Wonderful Defense of Slavery’?: Joel Chandler Harris’s Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era,” Invited guest blog entry for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT, 22 April 2012
Academic Advice Columns
“Can You Reverse a Defeatist Habit that Sabotages Your Writing?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 October 2021
“How to Talk to Famous Professors,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 2017. Republished in Chronicle Vitae, 4 August 2017
“Banish the Smarm,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 May 2017. Republished in Chronicle Vitae, 30 June 2017, and in print edition of the Chronicle, Vol. LXII, no. 40 (7 July 2017), pp. 29-30
“You Are Not a Public Utility,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2017. Republished in Chronicle Vitae, 26 May 2017, and in print edition of the Chronicle, Vol. LXIII, no. 36 (12 May 2017)
“The Art of ‘No,’” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 March 2017. Republished in Chronicle Vitae, 7 April 2017, and in print edition of the Chronicle, Vol. LXIII, no. 32 (14 April 2017), p. 40