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Fred MotenFred Moten  
Associate Professor

Office Location: 310 Allen Bldg
Office Phone: 919-668-0279
Email Address: fred.moten@duke.edu

Education and Interests:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Fred Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), 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 Press, 2007) and Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. F. Moten. "Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory  17.2 (July, 2007): 217-46.
  2. F. Moten. "Democracy." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Ed. Bruce Burgett & Glenn Hendler. New York University Press, 2007. 76-79.
  3. F. Moten. "The Salve Trade." Hambone 18 (Fall, 2006).
  4. F. Moten. "Offtime + Qualify." Callaloo 27.4 (Fall, 2004): 969-70.
  5. F. Moten & S. Harney. "The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses." Social Text  79 (Spring, 2004): 101-15.