Fred Moten's field is black studies, where he works at the intersection of performance, poetry and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), Poems (with Jim Behrle) (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Books, 2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008) and B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010).
Education
PhD,
University of California, Berkeley,
1994
A.B.,
Harvard University,
1985
Selected Publications
"from Block Chapel."
Hambone
20
(Fall, 2012)
:
250-60.
"from Fortrd.Fortrn."
Denver Quarterly
46
.4
(July, 2012)
:
79-81.
"Liner Notes for Lick Piece."
Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of Fluxus.
Ed. Valerie Cassell Oliver.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,
2012.
212-220.
with
with Christina Crosby, Lisa Duggan, Roderick Ferguson, Kevin Floyd, Miranda Joseph, Heather Love, Robert McRuer, Tavia Nyong’o, Lisa Rofel, Jordana Rosenberg, Gayle Salamon, Dean Spade and Amy Villarejo.
"Queer Studies, Materialism and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion."
GLQ
18
.1
(January, 2012)
:
127-47.
"'Come on, get it!' 6-9.1."
Amerarcana
2
(Winter, 2011)
:
28-34.
with
Stefano Harney.
"Politics Surrounded."
South Atlantic Quarterly
110
.4
(Fall, 2011)
:
985-88.
"Necessity, Immensity and Crisis: Many Edges/Seeing Things."
