Dr Christopher E. Forth

 

Christopher E. Forth is the Jack and Shirley Howard Teaching Professor in Humanities and Western Civilization at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in the cultural history of gender, sexuality and the body.

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

Flab: A Cultural History. Under contract with Reaktion Books (UK).

Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender, edited with Elinor Accampo (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009), under contract.

Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008). In press.

Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a “Central Problem,” edited with Peter Cryle (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008). In press.

French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics, edited with Bertrand Taithe (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). ISBN-13: 978-0-230-00661-4

Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World, edited with Ana Carden-Coyne (New York: Palgrave, 2005). ISBN: 1-4039-6521-8.

Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, edited with Ivan Crozier (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005). ISBN: 0-7391-0933-2.

The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). ISBN: 0-8018-7433-5.

Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918 (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001). ISBN: 0-87580-269-9.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Masculinity and Modernity.” Culture, Society and Masculinities, 1, no. 1 (Fall 2008): in progress.

“Manhood Incorporated: Diet and the Embodiment of ‘Civilized’ Masculinity.” Men and Masculinities (2009): in press.

“Bringing Bellies Back In: Navel Gazing in the History of the Body.” History Workshop Journal, 55 (Winter 2003): 239-247.

“Adventures of the Naked Truth: The Dreyfus Affair and the Female Form.” French Cultural Studies, 12, no. 2 (June 2001): 123-147.

“The Scholar, the Soldier, and the Jew: Three Characters in Search of the Phallus.” Australian Feminist Studies, 15 (November 2000): 335-342.

“Bodies of Christ: Gender, Jewishness, and Religious Imagery in the Dreyfus Affair.” History Workshop Journal, 48 (Autumn 1999): 18-38.

“Intellectuals, Crowds, and the Body Politics of the Dreyfus Affair.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 24 (Spring 1998): 63-91.

“Intellectual Anarchy and Imaginary Otherness: Gender, Class, and Pathology in French Intellectual Discourse, 1890-1900.” The Sociological Quarterly, 37 (Fall 1996): 645-671.

“Anarchism and the Body Intellect: French Intellectuals at the Fin de Siècle.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 23 (1995): 175-184.

“On the Prejudices of Philosophers: French Philosophical Discourse on Nietzsche, 1898-1908.” Theory and Society, 23 (December 1994): 839-881.

“The Function and Fate of Nietzschean Philosophy at the Boundaries of French Sociology, 1898-1911.” Annals of Scholarship: An International Quarterly in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 10 (1993): 147-175.

“Durkheim-as-Author/Suicide-as-Text: Writing, Death, and Subjectivity.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 13 (1993): 227-246.

“Nietzsche, Decadence, and Regeneration in France, 1891-95.” Journal of the History of Ideas, 54 (January 1993): 97-117.

“Nietzsche, Sorel, and French Nietzschean Socialism.” E.C. Barksdale Lectures, 12 (1991-92): 3-34.

“Booker T. Washington and the 1905 Niagara Movement Conference.” Journal of Negro History, 72 (Summer/Fall 1987): 45-56.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“‘Today the Brain has Killed the Muscle’: Physical Culture and the Remaking of French Manhood,” in Building the Body Beautiful: Art, Popular Culture, “Darwinism” and the Fitness Imperative, Fae Brauer, ed. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009), in press.

“Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal,” in The Cultural History of the Human Body, Volume 6: The Age of Change, 1920-2000, Ivan Crozier, ed. (London: Berg, 2008), in press.

(with Peter Cryle) “Introduction,” Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a “Central Problem,” Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth, eds. (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008), in press.

“A Diet of Pleasures? Sexuality, Dietetics and Identity at the Fin de Siècle,” in Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a “Central Problem,” Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth, eds. (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2008), in press.

“Painful Paradoxes: Consumption, Sacrifice and Man-Building in the Age of Nationalism,” in Negotiating the Sacred III: Religion, Medicine and the Body, Kevin White and Elizabeth Burns Coleman, eds. (Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2007), in press.

(with Bertrand Taithe) “Introduction: French Manhood in the Modern World.” In French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics, Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, eds. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), 1-14.

“La Civilisation and its Discontents: Modernity, Manhood and the Body during the Third Republic.” In French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics, Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, eds. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), 85-102.

(with Ivan Crozier) “Parts, Wholes, and People.” In Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 1-14.

“Guts and Manhood: The Culture of the Abdomen in Modern France.” In Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, Christopher E. Forth and Ivan Crozier, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 191-206.

(with Ana Carden-Coyne) “The Belly and Beyond: Body, Self, and Culture in Ancient and Modern Times.” In Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World, Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 1-11.

“‘The Belly of Paris’: The Decline of the Fat Man in Fin-de-Siècle France.” In Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World, Christopher E. Forth and Ana Carden-Coyne, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 205-219.

“The Novelization of the Dreyfus Affair: Women and Sensation in Fin-de-Siècle France.” In Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation, edited by Andrew Maunder and Grace Moore (London: Ashgate, 2004), 163-178.

“Hygiene, Manhood, and the Phallic Body: Some Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and History.” In History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, eds. (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2003), 106-116.

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