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

Teaching (Spring, 2010):

• English 90as.01, Readings in genre Synopsis

  Allen 317, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 2:45-5:00 pm and by appointment

Education:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Specialties:

African American Literature
Critical Theory
Poetry

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 Books, 2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008) and B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. "Black Op." PMLA 123.5 (October, 2008): 1743-47.
2. "The Case of Blackness." Criticism 50.2 (Spring, 2008): 177-218.
3. "Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory  17.2 (July, 2007): 217-46.
4. "Democracy." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Ed. Bruce Burgett & Glenn Hendler. New York University Press, 2007. 76-79.
5. "The New International of Rhythmic Feelings." Aural Cultures Ed. Sylvia Mieszkowski, Joy Smith, and Marjike de Valck. Rodopi, (2007)