Eugene Vydrin is interested in the intertwining histories of literary and plastic form and in the mediums, both verbal and visual, that have transmitted and transformed them. He focuses primarily on modernism in the 20th century -- its aesthetics and politics, theories and practices, Romantic roots and postmodern transformations. He teaches the writing seminars “Collage: From Art to Life (and Back)” and “The Surreal Thing” and is currently completing a dissertation on the idea of medium specificity in 20th-century visual art and poetry. He is also researching his next project on the phenomenon of stylistic revival.
