Fred Moten at Â鶹AV: The 2021-22 Mary Flexner Lectureship

Fred Moten, a leading scholar in the fields of Black studies and critical theory, with special concern for the entanglement of social movement and aesthetic experiment, held the 2020-2021 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Â鶹AV. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in October 2020. His latest book, written with Stefano Harney, is (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2020).

While in virtual residence at Bryn Mawr, Moten was scheduled to deliver three public lectures on his new work.

  • Oct. 28: sol aire 
  • Mar. 16: abduction and adduction 
  • Mar. 23: maps, territories

Fred Moten is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Moten teaches courses and conducts research in Black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2009); B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010); The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), The Little Edges (Wesleyan University Press, 2015), The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions, 2016), a three-volume collection of essays whose general title is consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018) and All that Beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019). Moten is also co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2013) and A Poetics of the Undercommons (Sputnik and Fizzle, 2016) and, with Wu Tsang, of Who touched me? (If I Can’t Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2016). Moten has served on the editorial boards of Callaloo, Discourse, American Quarterly and Social Text; as a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine; on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York; and on the advisory board of Issues in Critical Investigation, Vanderbilt University.