Stefano Harney


Stefano Harney is an American activist and scholar. Prior to relocating to Brazil, Harney taught at Singapore Management University, but was dismissed in part for awarding all his students A grades. Also, he has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London as well as at the European Graduate School. Currently, he is professor of transversal aesthetics at Academy Media Arts Cologne
He is a long-time collaborator with the 2020 MacArthur Fellows Program poet and scholar Fred Moten, as well as the scholar and current Barbadian ambassador to Brazil Tonika Sealy-Thompson.

Education

In 1985, Harney received a BA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. In 1988, he received a MA in American Studies from New York University. In 1993, he received a PhD from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Collaboration With Fred Moten

Harney co-authored The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study with Fred Moten. The text is a book-length series of essays that critiques the academy through a black radical lens. Moten and Harney have been friends for over 30 years and collaborators over 15 years; they frequently appear together at panels, interviews, and academic talks. The two are currently preparing for the publication of their second book together, All Incomplete, forthcoming from Autonomedia in 2021.

Works