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The  inaugural  co-editors

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Bryan McCann, Associate professor, inaugural co-editor


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Bryan J. McCann is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He is a rhetorical critic whose research and teaching interests include black studies, crime and public culture, hip-hop, masculinity, social movements, and whiteness studies. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation and debate, Black studies, crime and public culture, intersectionality, the politics of citizenship, rhetorical criticism, social movements, and social theory. He also serves as affiliate faculty in African and African American Studies, as well as Women's and Gender Studies at LSU.

​Dr. McCann is the author of 
The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era (University of Alabama Press, 2017), as well as numerous scholarly essays that have appeared in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; Communication, Culture, and Critique; Critical Studies in Media Communication; Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
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carmen kynard, professor, inaugural co-editor


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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/African American cultures and languages, and the politics of schooling with an emphasis on composition and literacies studies. Carmen 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's current projects focus on young Black women in college, Black Feminist/Afrofuturist digital vernaculars, and AfroDigital Humanities learning. Carmen traces her research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions” (
http://carmenkynard.org).
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  • Home
  • WHO WE ARE
    • The Co-Editors
    • The Assistant Editors
    • The Executive Board
  • WHAT WE DO
    • HOW & WHY WE BEGAN
    • The Structure of RPC
    • Our Review Philosophy
    • Sponsoring Members
  • WHAT & HOW TO SUBMIT
    • Our Review Philosophy
  • CURRENT ISSUE
  • OUR ARCHIVE
    • Our First Event
  • RPC Forum
    • Previous Calls
  • Summer Institute
    • RPC Reading List
    • Summer 2021 Meeting Agendas
  • GET IN TOUCH