Kristin Romberg

Department/Affiliation: Art and Art History
Phone: 330-263-1901
Office Address: 115 Ebert
Email: kromberg@wooster.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., Columbia University, 2010
• B.A., The University of Virginia, 1997

Selected Publications

• "Tektonika," introduction to collection of texts by Aleksei Gan in the anthology Formy i struktury. Antologiia rossiiskogo modernizma (Forms and Structures: Anthology of Russian Modernism), edited by Sergei Oushakine (Moscow: Kabinetnyi uchenyi, 2013)
• Translations of Sergei Tret'iakov's "The Theater of Attractions" and "The New Leo Tolstoy," October118 (fall 2006)
• "From Veshch'  to SA: Journal as Object," in Richard Anderson and Kristin Romberg, Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-35 (New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2005)

Honors and Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collecton, and George Washington University, 2011-2012
• Paul Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, 2006-2009
• Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship, American Councils of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), 2006
• Pepsico Travel Fellowship, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2006

Research Interests

Professor Romberg's interests lie in the art of the Enlightenment through the present, with particular focus on the interwar avant-garde and relationships among aesthetics, ethics, and politics. Her current book project,Radical Constructivism: Aleksei Gan's Grass-Roots Modernism, situates Russian constructivism within the context of Gan's career as a political organizer, demonstrating how his mass-media and performance-based practices define an embedded mode of modernism. She is also working on projects about the specificity of black-and-white print media and the concept of tectonic style as a methodological tool.