Charlie Smith
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Charlie is currently formulating his theory of "Russian Surrealism," involving the unacknowledged intellectual history of Surrealist ideas in Russia, as well as the basic formal qualities of avant-garde and experimental literature of the early 20th century that can be called "Surrealist." He is also interested in the psychology of (national/natural) space in Russian literature, theories of 'affect,' Metaphysical Realism, Traditionalism, and esotericism in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries