Devin Fore
Department/Program(s):
- German
Title: Assistant Professor of German.
Field: Modernism, Media Theory
Office: 214 East Pyne
Phone: 609-258-4146
Email: dfore@princeton.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30am-1:30pm and by appointment
Profile
Devin Fore received his PhD in German from Columbia University in 2005, and joined the Princeton German Department after a year researching and teaching as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. He has been awarded grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Whiting Foundation, and was the Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2008-2009. He is currently working on two book projects: one examines New Objectivity and the various returns of mimetic realism in German cultural production from the late 1920s into the Popular Front era (Alfred Döblin, Erik Reger, Bertolt Brecht, John Heartfield, Carl Einstein); the other is a theoretical study of Soviet factography that focuses on the work of the operative writer Sergei Tret'iakov. Fore has published in the journals New German Critique, October, and Grey Room; he is editing and writing an introduction for the English translation of Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge’s History and Obstinacy (forthcoming from Zone Books in 2011); he is also translator of a number of texts from both German and Russian.
Fore's research interests are: German cultural production from the eighteenth century through the 1970s, with a particular emphasis on German Modernism and critical theory; the literary and visual avant-gardes of the early Soviet period and Formalist poetics; visual art and media theory; early Marx; documentary literature and the history/theory of photography.
Fore is an Associate Faculty member of the Slavic Department and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Program in Media + Modernity.
“From Athlos to Arbeit: Heiner Müller’s Cement,” forthcoming in New German Critique, no. 110 (2010).
“‘Gegen den lebendigen Menschen’: Experimentelle sowjetische Biographik der 1920er Jahre,” in Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, ed. Bernhard Fetz (de Gruyter, 2009): 353-381.
“Formalism,” forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of The Novel (forthcoming from Blackwell, 2010).
“Introduction” to Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, History and Obstinacy (New York: Zone Books, 2011).
“The Entomic Age” (on Ernst Jünger), Grey Room, no. 33 (Fall 2008): 26-55.
“Introduction” and “The Operative Word in Soviet Factography,” October, no. 118, special issue on Soviet factography (Fall 2006): 3-11, 95-131.
“Döblin’s Epic: Sense, Document, and the Verbal World Picture,” New German Critique, no. 99, Special Issue on Modernism (Fall 2006): 171-207.
Fore's research interests are: German cultural production from the eighteenth century through the 1970s, with a particular emphasis on German Modernism and critical theory; the literary and visual avant-gardes of the early Soviet period and Formalist poetics; visual art and media theory; early Marx; documentary literature and the history/theory of photography.
Fore is an Associate Faculty member of the Slavic Department and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Program in Media + Modernity.
Publications:
“Dziga Vertov, The First Shoemaker of Soviet Cinematography,” forthcoming in Configurations (2009).“From Athlos to Arbeit: Heiner Müller’s Cement,” forthcoming in New German Critique, no. 110 (2010).
“‘Gegen den lebendigen Menschen’: Experimentelle sowjetische Biographik der 1920er Jahre,” in Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, ed. Bernhard Fetz (de Gruyter, 2009): 353-381.
“Formalism,” forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of The Novel (forthcoming from Blackwell, 2010).
“Introduction” to Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, History and Obstinacy (New York: Zone Books, 2011).
“The Entomic Age” (on Ernst Jünger), Grey Room, no. 33 (Fall 2008): 26-55.
“Introduction” and “The Operative Word in Soviet Factography,” October, no. 118, special issue on Soviet factography (Fall 2006): 3-11, 95-131.
“Döblin’s Epic: Sense, Document, and the Verbal World Picture,” New German Critique, no. 99, Special Issue on Modernism (Fall 2006): 171-207.
