Eugene Vydrin
Clinical Assistant Professor
ev247@nyu.edu
(212) 992-6324
428 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Monday BY APPT
Tuesday BY APPT
Wednesday BY APPT
Thursday BY APPT
Friday BY APPT
B.A., English and American Literature, New York University, 2001
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2002
M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2005
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2013
Eugene Vydrin's research interests are in twentieth-century literature, visual art, and critical theory, in the intersections between verbal and visual mediums, and in the relation between aesthetic form and political critique. He is interested in the nature of artistic mediums as historical constructs, materials in use that index the social relations and cultural politics of the times and places that invented them. He wrote his dissertation on the Modernist doctrine of medium specificity in art and literature, arguing that artworks model their identity on the places, or specific sites, where they are made. He is currently continuing his research into places as artistic mediums, sites of collective memory and counter-memory where the superseded past lingers or returns. Prior to joining NYU as a full-time faculty member, Vydrin taught in the First-Year English program at Barnard College. In 2013, he received the Adviser of Distinction award from The Gallatin School.
Awards & Honors
2020
Eugene Vydrin’s research interests are in 20th-century literature, visual art and criticism, in the intersections between verbal and visual mediums, and in the relation between aesthetic form and political critique. He is interested in the ways that artworks, both verbal and visual, represent and embody specific places, especially those in which the superseded past lingers or returns. Vydrin's dissertation examined the modernist aesthetic doctrine of medium specificity in relation to place, arguing that artworks model themselves on the specific sites where they are made. He is currently writing about British detective fiction, its relation to national identity, and its representation of the local past. Prior to joining NYU as a full-time faculty member, Vydrin taught in the First-Year English program at Barnard College. He was recognized with an Adviser of Distinction Award in 2013.
Teaching and Research Interests
20th-century poetry and poetics; modernism and the avant-garde; 20th-century art history criticism and theory; art historiography; film history and theory
Courses
2023 Spring
Ruins, Fragments, and Archives
2023 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Double, Double
First-Year Writing Seminar: Twilight of the Gods
2022 Spring
Ruins, Fragments, and Archives
2022 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Double, Double
First-Year Writing Seminar: Twilight of the Gods
2021 Spring
