Devin Fore is Professor of German at Princeton University, where he also teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Media and Modernity. His publications include Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (October/MIT Press, 2012) and Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism (University of Chicago Press, 2024). He is currently completing a shorter study History, A Procession of Peasants, which examines the pastoral impulse in the film, architecture, and urban planning of the 1920s through the lens of Engels’ Dialectic of Nature (pub. 1925).