The Daily Bulletin

The College Writing Program is proud to welcome Dr. Carmen Kynard for a keynote address and teaching workshop on Friday, April 18. Dr. Kynard’s keynote entitled “‘Mama Said Knock You Out’: Lessons from Classrooms on the Black Radical Traditions of Refusal and Creative Escape,” is open to the public at 11:00 a.m. All Buffalo State students, faculty members, and staff are invited to attend this important talk. For details and location, RSVP to the keynote on the Bengal Connect event page.

Dr. Kynard also will lead a workshop for Buffalo State faculty members, staff, and graduate students at 1:30 p.m. called “Black Language, Black Rhetorics, and the Racial Politics of Communication (‘Walk It Like I Talk It/ Write It Like I Talk It’).” RSVP for the teaching workshop for more details and location. 

Dr. 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/Black languages and cultures, and the politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition, rhetoric, and literacies studies. Dr. Kynard has taught high school in the New York City public schools/Coalition of Essential Schools, served as a writing program administrator, and worked as a teacher educator. She has led numerous professional development projects on language, literacy, and learning and has published in Harvard Educational Review, Changing English, College Composition and Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Reading Research Quarterly, Literacy and Composition Studies, and more. Her award-winning book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies, makes Black Freedom a twenty-first century literacy movement. Her current projects focus on young Black women and gender-expansive folx in college, Black Feminist rhetorics, and anti-racist/anti-colonial pedagogies.

This event is brought to Buffalo State's campus by the College Writing Program and funded by the Faculty-Student Association. Please contact the College Writing Program or Mary Beth Sullivan with questions.