Carmen Kynard
Carmen Kynard is the Lillian Radford Chair in
Rhetoric and Composition and a Professor of English at
Texas Christian University. Before that, she worked at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on
race,
Black feminisms, AfroDigital/Black languages and cultures, and schooling dynamics, particularly in composition, rhetoric, and
literacy studies. Carmen has taught in
New York City's public schools, worked in writing program administration, and in teacher education. She has led
initiatives for professional development in language, literacy, and learning. Her research appears in
Harvard Educational Review,
College Composition and Communication, and Literacy and Composition Studies. Kynard is the author of ''Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies'', which won the 2015
James N. Britton Award presented by the
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In 2023, Kynard was also honored with the
Richard C. Ohmann Outstanding Article Award for scholarship published in the academic journal ''
College English.''
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