#BlackGirlMagic: Understanding AfroDigital Black Feminisms in 21st Century Writing Classrooms

Time: April 6, 2018, noon - 2 p.m.

Location: 319 Sims

Carmen Kynard (John Jay College)

Kynard helps educators think about how race-related current events can be used in teaching writing across classes. Space is limited; please RSVP to Kristi Johnson by March 27. Include any requests for accessibility accommodations. Participants will need to bring a laptop or other digital device to view online work.

Biography: Carmen Kynard is associate professor of English at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has led numerous professional projects on race, language, and literacy 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 first book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies won the 2015 James Britton Award and makes Black Freedom a 21st century literacy movement. Carmen traces her research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions."

Additional supporters:

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
School of Education
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Democratizing Knowledge
Women's & Gender Studies

Patrick Berry, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition