Insider-Outsiders

Whatever Fred Moten is up to, it must be brilliant. Moten, a professor of performance studies at NYU, was awarded a MacArthur grant in 2020, a Guggenheim fellowship in 2016, and numerous awards for his poetry. He holds degrees in English from two of the highest-rated English departments in the country—Harvard and UC Berkeley—and has been appointed to advisory boards at Vanderbilt, UC Irvine, and the City University of New York.