fred moten
professor of performance studies + comparative literature • new york university
a poet and theorist of black study and performance, working across music, visual culture, and literature, often in collaboration. he teaches performance studies and comparative literature at new york university, and was named a macarthur fellow in 2020.
bio from new york university, tisch school of the arts
read
- Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy — harvard magazine, 2017
- Fred Moten with Jarrett Earnest — the brooklyn rail, 2017
- An Interview with Fred Moten, Part 1 — literary hub, 2015
- The Fertilizing Power of Funk — hyperallergic, 2020
- Discomposition: An Interview with Fred Moten — michigan quarterly review, 2024
watch
- Note on a Blue Note in The Gospel of Barbecue — harvard divinity school, 2020
- Robin D.G. Kelley & Fred Moten In Conversation — university of toronto, 2017
- Fred Moten on Plato, Dickinson, and the Philosophical Blues — st. john's college
- A Lecture by Fred Moten, M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor — cornell english department
- Fred Moten at Utopia 13/13 — columbia center for contemporary critical thought
hear
- Fred Moten, Department of Performance Studies, New York University — the black studies podcast, 2025
- 36. Violence (w/ Fred Moten and Stefano Harney) — disintegrator, 2025
- Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson (part 1) — commonplace, 2023
- "Wildcat The Totality": Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons (Part 1) — millennials are killing capitalism, 2020
- Revolution as Preservation: An Interview with Fred Moten — being human, 2020