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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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5.05/4/2026

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About Kristin

Kristin Romberg, Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art History Program in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, particularly exploring the forms through which knowledge, perception, and the material world are reorganized during moments of political, cultural, and epistemic revolution. Her scholarship has focused primarily on Russia and the early Soviet Union. Romberg holds secondary appointments in the European Union Center, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Her research areas include aesthetics and genre, affect studies and psychoanalysis, biopolitics, empire and globalization, materialism, media studies, other futures, race, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality.