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. Her book, "Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies," highlights Black Freedom as central to 21st-century literacy discourse.