His areas of specialization are the Russian avant-garde and formalist poetics; German modernism; critical theory and aesthetic philosophy; documentary; media studies, with a special emphasis on the history of photography. Fore has published in the journals October, New German Critique, and Grey Room. He is currently working on two books, All the Graphs, a critical analysis of Soviet factography that focuses on the work of the operative writer Sergei Tret’iakov, and Realism’s Revenants, an examination of new objectivity and related forms of mimetic realism in German literature and art during the interwar period.