# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-moten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:37:01.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-moten"
name: "Fred Moten"
slug: "fred-moten"
description: "Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside; he previously taught at Duke University, and the University of Iowa. His scholarly texts include The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study which was co-authored with Stefano Harney, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and The Universal Machine. He has published numerous poetry collections, including The Little Edges, The Feel Trio, B Jenkins, and Hughson's Tavern."
tagline: "American poet and scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Moten_2016.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3144950"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump