Fred Moten Biography

Fred Moten is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press) Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works) B. Jenkins (Duke University Press) The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions) and co-author with Stefano Harney of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia). His current projects include two critical texts consent not to be a single being (forthcoming from Duke University Press) and Animechanical Flesh which extend his study of black art and social life and a new collection of poems The Little Edges.
In 2009 Moten was Critic-in-Residence at In Transit 09: Resistance of the Object The Performing Arts Festival at the House of World Cultures Berlin and was also recognized as one of ten “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America; in 2011 he was a Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute; in 2012 he was Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College; and in 2013 he was a Guest Faculty Member in the Summer Writers Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa Institute. He was also a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California Irvine from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York from 2001 to 2002.

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