Fred Moten (born 1962) is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts. He 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).