​Carmen Kynard

Carmen Kynard is the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition and Professor of English at Texas Christian University. She interrogates race, Black
feminisms, AfroDigital/African American cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition and literacies studies. Her award-winning book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies, makes Black Freedom a 21st century literacy movement. Her current projects focus on young Black women in college, BlackFeminist/Afrofuturist imaginatiom, and AfroDigital Humanities learning. Carmen traces her
research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions.”