NPR: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, weekly commentary.
MSNBC.COM, bi-weekly commentary.
NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel, frequent contributor, commentary.
ARCHITECTURE, Stereopticon: a monthly column.
THE BALTIMORE SUN, bi-weekly columnist.
FUNNY TIMES, regular contributor.
GAMBIT WEEKLY, columnist.

Appearances on THE TODAY SHOW, THE TONIGHT SHOW, THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW, THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW, CNN-INTERNATIONAL HOUR, C-SPAN, ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, CBS NEWS. Writes commentary and book reviews for THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEWSDAY, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, PLAYBOY, SIERRA MAGAZINE, DIGITAL MEDIA, INDEX ON CENSORSHIP.

Lectures extensively, participates in national and international symposia. List of topics available.

AWARDS

• MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English, LSU
• Peabody Award for Road Scholar.
• Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for poetry; editing; radio
• Big Table Poetry Award
• Towson State University Literature Prize
• General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize
• ACLU Freedom of Speech Award
• Mayor's Arts Award, New Orleans.
• Literature Prize of the Romanian Cultural Foundation, Bucharest

REFERENCE

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES, Volume 19, 1994.
Gale Research. ANDREI CODRESCU.

ANDREI CODRESCU: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1966-1990 by Daniel Lee Butcher.
M.A. thesis based on the Codrescu holdings at LSU's Hill Memorial Library.

XAVIER REVIEW, Vol. 20, No.1, New Orleans 2000. "Tanslating Codrescu into Romanian" by Ioana Avadani; "Andreiology" by Julian Semilian; "Codrescu Verses America: A Postmodern Turned Loose" by Tim Lehnert.

ROMANI IN STIINTA SI CULTURA OCCIDENTALA, American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Davis 1992. Encyclopedia: Romanians in Arts & Sciences in the Western world.

SONG OF MY EMERGING SELF: THE POETRY OF ANDREI CODRESCU by Ileana Alexandra Orlich. MELUS, Volume 18, No.3, Fall 1993.

SCRIITORI DIN DIASPORA: ANDREI CODRESCU by Florea Firan
Analele Universitatii din Craiova, Seria Stiinte Filologice, Literatura Romana si Universala, Nr.1-12, 1997

ANDREI CODRESCU’S MIORITIC SPACE by Richard Collins. MELUS, Volume 23, Number 3, Fall 1998.

RECORDED COMMENTARIES

August 25, 1999: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Idiot's Guides -- Andrei relates some of his thoughts about a publishing trend he finds hard to understand: the proliferation of books marketed to stupid people. (3:30)

April 26, 1999: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: BOB DYLAN -- For no special reason - Andrei Codrescu is thinking about how much he loves Bob Dylan. (4:00)

April 20, 1999: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: COLLECTING -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu on the art of collecting things. (4:00)

April 8, 1999: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: HOW WE GOT TO KOSOVO -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu, who grew up in cold war Romania, offers his historical sense of what led to Kosovo. (3:30)

December 28, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered:  AOL Junkie -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu confesses his addiction to America Online like an alcoholic would at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. (3:45)

December 14, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Pope 2000 -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu has some thoughts on the pope and his declaration that people who don't smoke or drink for a day will get spared some time in purgatory. (3:45)

December 25, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: San Lazaro -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu visits Cuba. For centuries, Cubans have been making pilgrimages to the Shrine of San Lazaro. The saint does not exist in the traditional Catholic hagiography. Andrei goes along as people take their troubles along to the Saint, to pray for help and hope in the coming year. (6:00)

November 9, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Synchronicity -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu has a few thoughts on the idea of synchronicity. (3:30)

November 2, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Tech Withdrawal Anxiety -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu talks about being in a foreign country with no networking technology. (3:00)

October 29, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: A Simple Heart -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu tells the story of a woman who wrote him a long letter detailing her ten year friendship and concern for a Romanian family. Andrei is touched by her story of an unselfish friendship. (3:30)

October 21, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: San Francisco Poet Laureate -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu recounts the coronation of poet Laureate - Lawrence Ferlingetti in San Francisco. Ferlingetti spoke of wanting to restore the soul of his city. (3:00)

September 25, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Post-Partum of the Novelist -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu has some thought about the sense of loss and post-partum sadness that a novelist feels after releasing his characters onto the pages of a book. (3:30)

September 10, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Waiters of the World -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu notes that the approach of waiters differs from country to country - like the French, who elicit fear in their customers -- and in Romania, where waiters are similarly haughty...though somewhat more dangerous, because they will take notes patrons' behavior. (3:00)

August 10, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Russian Language -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu ponders his dislike of non-Romantic languages. In particular, he makes the case and point about Slavic dialects; languages he says he'll never understand. The reason, he thinks is genetic: too many of his ancestors were slaughtered by Slavs. (2:45)

August 6, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Gypsies in Prague -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu says that the city of Prague in the Czech Republic looks almost like a Disneyland now, but has a very bloody past. He talks about the history of the Roma, better known as Gypsies in the city, and tells the story of one man who dared to speak up on their behalf. (3:15)

May 27, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered:  No Ice Cream -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu thinks that it is cold-hearted of the ice cream executive Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's ice cream to oppose the integration of Eastern Europe into NATO. Phyllis Schlafly and former Senator Nunn get a mention too. (3:15)

May 5, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Shell Game -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu got some real inside information on the nation's booming economy while he was on a flight recently. He says that while things appear to be fantastic on the surface, the economy's apparent strength is in reality the result of a sophisticated shell game. (2:30)

  January 22, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Virgin of Charity -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu visits Cuba's most sacred and symbolic Catholic shrine. It's dedicated to the Virgin of Charity, a stature that was found in the sea by sialors who claim it saved thier lives. The Virgin resides in a chapel in far eastern Cuba. On Saturday, it will be taken out of its place of rest and brought to the Pope in a nearby city. Codrescu talks about the meaning of the statue's dual representations, as both mother and warrior. (7:30)

  January 20, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Pablo -- Commentator Andrei Codrescu goes to Havana and falls into the world of a young teenaged hustler named Pablo. Pablo is a jinatero ...literally, "a jockey," but idiomatically, "a guy looking for dollars." Pablo is a charmer, ready to supply any sort of service or goods. He offers pithy anti-regime remarks one second, a box of cigars swiped from a factory the next, and a full-scale Santeria service the moment after that. Andrei guides us through the experience many visitors to Cuba may have as a result of becoming affiliated with jinateros, with tips on the pros and cons of traveling through the country. (10:00)

December 23, 1997: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: Budapest Synagogue -- Andrei Codrescu went to Eastern Europe 8 years ago this month, back to the world he left as an immigrant when he was a boy. On the way to Romania, his homeland, he stopped through Budapest and visited a synogogue. This is a reprise of the moving report he sent from there in 1989, in which he describes the role Jews have played, and will play in the history of the region. (4:30)

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