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Frederick C MotenFrederick C Moten  
Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry

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

Teaching (Spring, 2012):

  • English 90cs.01, Reading thematically Synopsis
    Allen 317, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • English 100cs.01, Writing: poetry Synopsis
    Social sciences 109, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

Office Hours:

Spring 2012
Mondays, 12-2

Education:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

A.B., Harvard University
Specialties:

African American Literature

Fred Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, 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).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. "Arthur Jafa & Greg Tate." Rabbit Light Movies: A Journal of Poemfilms (2010). [html]
  2. "Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia." Hambone 19 (Fall, 2009): 110-133.
  3. "Rough Americana by DJ Mutamassik + Morgan Craft." Journal of the Society for American Music 2.2 (May, 2008): 283-87.
  4. "The Case of Blackness." Criticism 50.2 (Spring, 2008): 177-218.

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