Fred Moten

PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE CHAIR OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES, PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Fred Moten

Fred Moten is Professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, where he teaches courses in black study, poetics and critical theory. He works with lots of social and aesthetic study groups including Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, the Black Arts Movement School Modality, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Moved by the Motion, the Institute of Physical Sociality and the Harris/Moten Quartet.

RECENT WORK

11 Jahre 11 Interviews, co-written with Stefano Harney, trans. Axel Walter, Merve Verlag, 2024.

La sonora reticenza, introd. Brent Hayes Edwards, trans. Lorenzo Mari, NERO Editions, 2024.

Perennial Fashion  Presence Falling, Wave Books, 2023.

Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present, co-edited with Ruth Fine,  Rizzoli Electa, 2023.

Moten/López/Cleaver (with Brandon López & Gerald Cleaver), Reading Group Records, RG 23, 2022.

 

 

 

Education

University of California - Berkeley

Ph.D. 

Berkeley, California

 

Harvard University

A.B.

Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Areas of Academic Interest

• Black Study and Black Préformance

• Music

• Visual Culture

• Literature

Awards and Distinctions

• Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy, 2023.

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2022.

MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2020.

• Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, 2020.

• United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, 2018.

• Roy Lichtenstein Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2018.