St. John’s College Presents:

A Cultural Rhetoric Speaker Series bringing timely and leading-edge presentations from three dynamic and nationally recognized scholars of cultural rhetoric to our campus community.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, Virtual, 7-8:15 p.m. – Dr. Carmen Kynard                      

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. Kynard 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. 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, Black Feminist/Afrofuturist digital vernaculars, and AfroDigital Humanities learning.

Co-sponsored by the Academic Center for Equity and Inclusion