Join the Lamar Dodd School of Art in conversation with 2020 MacArthur Fellow Fred Moten via Zoom on November 20, 2020 at 2:00 PM. This event is sponsored by the Willson Center  in association with the 21st Century Faculty Research Cluster.  

Fred Moten is a teacher and writer who explores black studies, performance studies, poetry, and critical theory. He is especially interested in the social force and origins behind black expressive cultural practices. Moten himself attended Harvard University to receive his AB and went on to earn his PhD in English from the University of California Berkley. He has taught at several colleges and universities such as University of Iowa, Duke University and Brown University, among others.  

Moten is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Hughson’s Tavern, B. Jenkins, The Feel Trio, The Little Edges, The Service Porch and consent not to be a single being. He is co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study and A Poetics of the Undercommons and, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me?

Moten has also served on the editorial boards of American Quarterly, Callaloo, Discourse and Social Text. He has served as a member of the advisory board of Issues in Critical Investigation at Vanderbilt University, as well as the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York.  Moten has been the Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. In 2016, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the African American Literature and Culture Society.

Currently, Moten lives in New York City and teaches Black Studies, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetics in the Department of Performance Studiesat New York University. 

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