Publications

Selected Publications

Kynard, Carmen. Vernacular Insurrections: The Color Line, Black Protest Literacies, and the New Writing Studies. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, revisions in progress.

Kynard, Carmen and Robert Eddy. “Toward a New Critical Framework: Color-Conscious Political Morality and Pedagogy at Historically Black and Historically White Colleges and Universities.” College Composition and Communication, forthcoming.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Ain’t We Got a Right to the Tree of Life’: The Intersection of Black Power, Black Arts, and Black Studies in the Revolution for Students’ (Linguistic) Rights and Literacies.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, forthcoming.

Kynard, Carmen. “In Memory of Damon, R.I.P.: Not all Writers Are Anglo, Not all Writers are Bougsie, and Not All Writers are Standardized-English-Only.“ Talking about Style: Essays on Speaking Articulately about the Workings of Texts. Eds. Elizabeth Hodges and Dona Hickey, forthcoming.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘The Blues Playingest Dog You Ever Heard of’: (Re)positioning Literacy Research Through African American Blues Rhetorics.” Reading Research Quarterly 43.4 (October 2008): 356-373.

Kynard, Carmen. “Writing While Black: The Colour Line, Black Discourses, and Assessment in the Institutionalization of Writing Instruction.” English Teaching: Practice and Critique 7. 2 (September 2008): 4-34.

Kynard, Carmen. “’Wanted: Some Black Long Distance [Writers]’: Blackboard Flava-Flavin and Other Afro-Digitized Experiences in the Classroom.” Computers and Composition 24.3 (September 2007): 329-345.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘I Want To Be African’: In Search of a Black Radical Tradition/African-American-Vernacularized Paradigm for ‘Students’ Rights to Their Own Language,’ Critical Literacy, and ‘Class Politics.’ ” College English 69.4 (March 2007): 356-386.

Dickson, Randi and Peter Smagorinsky with Jonathon Bush, Leila Christenbury, Bobby Cummings, Marshall George, Peg Graham, Pamela Hartman, Carmen Kynard, Hephzibah Roskelly, Susan Steffel, Ruth Vinz, and Susan Weinstein. “Are Methods Enough? Situating English Education Programs Within the Multiple Settings of Learning to Teach.” English Education 38.4 (July 2006): 312-328.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Yall Are Killin’ Me Up In Here’: Response Theory from a Newjack Comp Instructor/Sistuhgirl Meeting Her Students on the Page.” Teaching English at the Two-Year College 33.4 (May 2006): 361-387.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Looking for the Perfect Beat’: The Power of Black Student Protest Rhetorics for Academic Literacy and Higher Education.” Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 12.3 (December 2005): 387-402.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Getting On The Right Side of It’: Problematizing and Rethinking the Research Paper Genre in the College Composition Course.” Genre Across the Curriculum. Eds. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. Logan, Utah: Utah University Press, 2005. 128-151.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Trying to Bend The Tree When It Is Already Grown’: Spanning the Spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the Writing Classroom.” Teaching English Today: Advocating Change in the Secondary Curriculum. Eds. Barrie R. C. Barell, Roberta Hammett, John S. Mayher, and Gordon M. Pradl. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. 92-105.

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘New Life in This Dormant Creature’: Notes on Social Consciousness, Language, and Learning in a College Classroom.” Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Eds. Christopher Shroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell. NH: Heinemann, 2002. 31-44.

Works in Progress

Kynard, Carmen “ ‘Each One, Teach One”: Challenging the Racist

Paternalism of Service Learning Through Racial Solidarity and Black Shared Fates” (research completed; 25 pages ms)

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘I Carry The Eyes of Ida B. Wells’: Genre and Counter-Storytelling When Young Black Women Right/Write The Wor(l)d (research completed; 25 pages ms)

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘Uphold My End of the Bargain I Made With God’: The Cultural Work and Discourses of Pan-African Dissent/Ascent for Black Female College Students Online” (research completed; 25 pages ms)

Kynard, Carmen. “Digital Sister-Cypher: Black Female College Students and the Quest for Color-Consciousness and Pan-African Discourses for Survival” (research completed; 25 pages ms)

Kynard, Carmen. “ ‘The Skin I’m In’: Color-Conscious Discourses and Epistemologies of Urban Teacher Candidates of Color” (research coding in progress)

Kynard, Carmen. Vernacular Classrooms: Teaching Narratives from the Intersection of Black Protest Traditions, Critical Pedagogies, and New Literacies (240 page ms proposal in progress)