Comparative Modernisms Workshop, April 24, 5pm: Devin Fore, "Actualized Realism: Soviet Factography and the Noetics of the Newspaper"
When:
Monday, April 24, 2017
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 2350 (Kaplan Seminar Room), 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Erica Weitzman
(847) 467-1849
Group: Comparative Modernisms Workshop
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Devin Fore is the author of Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (MIT, 2012), awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the best work in German Studies. His articles have appeared in New German Critique, October, Configurations and Grey Room, and he has edited and written the introductory essay to the English translation of Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge’s History and Obstinacy (Zone Books, 2014). His forthcoming book All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary, situates the multi-media work of Sergei Tret’iakov within the material culture of the early Soviet period. He is also an editor of the journal October, a member of the editorial advisory board of New German Critique, and a contributing editor to Germanic Review and The German Quarterly.