Carmen Kynard
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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.[1]
Themes in work
Kynard studies race, Black feminisms, African American cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling, with a focus on composition and literacy studies. [2]
Her teaching approach is rooted in new literacies, critical pedagogies, Black Feminisms, and Black radical traditions. In her view, literacy is a socio-cultural practice that is deeply intertwined with political processes and contextual factors like personal, cultural, geographic, and historical aspects. She believes that literacy is not just a set of neutral skills, but rather a space for action and empowerment that enables individuals to either become objects or subjects who can effect change.[2]
Kynard views Black Language as a philosophical space that provides radical alternatives for life, freedom, and racial criticism. Black Language is not just a set of morphosyntactic choices made by speakers and writers but an intellectual approach and ideological system in these projects.[3]
Kynard emphasizes the importance of centering Black visuality in academic discourse and examines the challenges of integrating Black visual culture into teaching practices. One of her works MB4L {“Black Digital-Cultural Imaginations: Black Visuality and Aesthetic Refuge in the M4BL Classroom.” } advocates for embracing pedagogical Blackness and supporting marginalized voices within the M4BL. Black vernacular creativity is explored as a form of resistance and self-expression, challenging traditional notions of visual rhetoric. The essay calls for an inclusive approach to education that values and uplifts Black visual culture and creativity.[4]
Publications
- Kynard, Carmen. “'Oh No She Did NOT Bring Her Ass Up in Here with That!' Racial Memory, Radical Reparative Justice, and Black Feminist Pedagogical Futures." College English, vol 85, no 4, 2023, pp. 318-345. (winner of 2023 Richard Ohmann Award)
- Kynard, Carmen. "Fakers and Takers: Disrespect, Crisis, and Inherited Whiteness in Rhetoric-Composition Studies." Composition Studies, vol 50, no 3, 2022, pp. 131–136.
- Kynard, Carmen. “Black Digital-Cultural Imaginations: Black Visuality and Aesthetic Refuge in the M4BL Classroom.” Enculturation.net, https://enculturation.net/black_digital_culture_imaginations, 24 Mar 2022.
- Kynard, Carmen. “‘Chile, A Fox Be Just a Fox’: Black Girlhood Narratives as Rhetorical and Curricular Intervention in College Instruction.” Purposeful Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts: Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement. Eds., Darrell Hucks, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Victoria Showunmi, Suzanne C. Carothers, Chance W. Lewis. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing (part of series: Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement edited by Chance W. Lewis), 2022. 387-397.
- Kynard, Carmen. “‘Troubling the Boundaries’ of Anti-Racism: The Clarity of Black Radical Visions amid Racial Erasure." WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol 44, no 3, 2021, 185–192.
- Kynard, Carmen. “‘Pretty for a Black Girl’: AfroDigital Black Feminisms and the Critical Context of ‘Mobile Black Sociality.’” Mobility Work in Composition. Eds Eds. Bruce Horner, Megan Faver Hartline, Ashanka Kumari, and Laura Sceniak Matravers. Logan, Utah: Utah University Press, 2021. 82-94.
- Kynard, Carmen. “'All I Need Is One Mic': A Black Feminist Community Meditation on the Work, the Job, and the Hustle (& Why So Many of Yall Confuse This Stuff)." Community Literacy Journal 14.2 (2020): 5-24. (Selected for “The Best of Independent Composition and Rhetoric Journals 2021")
- Kynard, Carmen. “Black as Gravitas: Reflections of a Black Composition Studies.” Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal 2 (2020). https://sparkactivism.com/volume-2-call/vol-2-intro/black-as-gravitas/[1]
References
- ^ a b "Faculty & Staff Directory". addran.tcu.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ a b "More about Carmen Kynard's Teaching & Digital Spaces". BLACK FEMINIST PEDAGOGIES.COM. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "Digication ePortfolio :: Carmen Kynard's Research Portfolio :: Overview of My Research and Scholarship". johnjay.digication.com. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "|". www.enculturation.net. Retrieved 2024-03-22.