Carmen Kynard
Carmen Kynard | |
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| Known for | Antiracism, black culture, language, literacy |
| Awards | Richard C. Ohmann Outstanding Article Award (2023), 2015 James M. Britton Award |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Texas Christian University |
Carmen Kynard is the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition and a Professor of English at Texas Christian University.[1] 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 feminism, AfroDigital/Black languages and cultures, and schooling dynamics, particularly in composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies.
She has taught in New York City's public schools and in teacher education. Her research has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, College Composition and Communication, and Literacy and Composition Studies.[citation needed]
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).[2][3] In 2023, Kynard was honored with the Richard C. Ohmann Outstanding Article Award for scholarship published in the academic journal College English.[4]
References
- ^ "Faculty & Staff Directory". addran.tcu.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "ELATE James N. Britton Award". National Council of Teachers of English. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ "Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies". SUNY Press.
- ^ "Richard Ohmann Award". National Council of Teachers of English. Retrieved 2024-09-18.