The Daily Bulletin

Tickets are still available to attend Dr. Carmen Kynard’s keynote address and teaching workshop on April 18, 2025. 

The College Writing Program is proud to welcome Dr. Kynard to spend the day with the  campus community, starting with her 11:00 am talk,"'Mama Said Knock You Out': Lessons from Classrooms on the Black Radical Traditions of Refusal and Creative Escape.” Tickets are free and available to the public. RSVP to this event today! 

Event Description: In a moment when critical approaches to curriculum and instruction are under fire everywhere, creative and imaginative learning are even more important.  This presentation traces Black fugitive practices--- past and present--- marking minoritized students as the most critical makers of anti-colonial schooling.  Though institutions, administrators, policy makers, and faculty often imagine themselves as the sole inspiration for educational change and progressivism, this has never been the whole truth.  This presentation instead locates the legacies and futures of Black Radical traditions with Black and Brown youth and their allies as the truthtellers, curriculum questioners, alt-linguistic models, multimodal artists, digital activists, literacy architects, creative designers, and transnational dreamers of the education we all deserve.

Tickets are free and available to the public. RSVP for this event today! 

About Dr. Kynard: 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. Carmen has taught high school with 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 21st 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.