Zakery R. Muñoz
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  • About
  • First Year Composition
    • The Prompt
    • The Calendar
    • The Free Writes
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • MA Portfolio
Zakery R. Muñoz
Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
239 HB Crouse Hall
College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
315.443.1091
Zakeryrey@gmail.com

Academic Employment​

Syracuse University
  • Graduate Student Fellow (2020-Present)
North Star Editions
  • Historical Consultant for book in "I Am America" Series (2020)
University of New Mexico
  • Graduate Instructor: English (August 2017 - December 2019)
  • Pearson Textbook Ambassador (August 2019 - May 2020)
  • American Indian Summer Bridge English Tutor (Summer 2017)
  • Student Employment Intern (2016-2017)

Education​

Syracuse University
PhD Student (2020 - Present )
Composition & Cultural Rhetoric
University of New Mexico
MA (2020)
Rhetoric & Composition
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BA (2017)
Double Major - English & History
Central New Mexico University
AA (2015)
​English

Projects | Workshops | Talks

Rhetoric Society of America - "Minerality and Materiality: The Relationship Between Environmental Penetration and Humanity" (May 2020*)

Historical Society of New Mexico Conference: "Though Shalt Not Scab" (April 2020*)

​National Hispanic Cultural Center - La Canoa: The Women of Local 890 and the Empire Zinc Mining Strike (October 2018)
Featured speaker

Salt of the Earth Recovery Project (2018)
Project Coordinator

Lightning Round: The University of New Mexico's English Department Colloquium (2018)
Lecture on the Villanueva tapestry
*Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic

Scholarships & Awards

Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship
  • Most prestigious graduate student award offered at SU
Center for Regional Studies Fellowship
  • The mission of CRS is to promote the discovery, creation, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about New Mexico and the Southwest Region. 
National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing Writer-in-Residence Fellowship
  • Fellowship awarded upon evaluation of scholarship that warrants merit and potential for publication with a specific focus on environmental rhetoric. 
Salt of the Earth Recovery Project Grant
  • Awarded to project chair and project coordinators of the Salt of the Earth Recovery Project for coordinating writing workshops and promoting civic discourse in the Cobre district of New Mexico.
Vicente Ximenes Scholarship in Public Rhetoric & Civic Liberty
  • Scholarship Objective: To encourage and support graduate scholarship and service in the areas of public rhetoric and civic literacy. 
Bank of America Returning Student Scholarship
  • Scholarship Objective: Award for a returning student studying rhetoric and writing with a concentration in professional writing.

Courses taught

The University of New Mexico
2019
Fall


​Summer

​Spring

2018
Fall


Spring 

2017
Fall

ENGL 219
ENGL 112

ENGL 111

ENGL 220
ENGL 112

ENGL 219
ENGL 111

ENGL 120
ENGL 120

ENGL 110
​ENGL 110

Technical & Professional Communication
Stretch Composition II

Stretch Composition I
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Expository Writing: "Post Truth"
Stretch Composition II

Technical & Professional Communication
​Stretch Composition I
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Composition III
Composition III
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Accelerated Composition
Accelerated Composition

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Publications

Stories Through the Ages College Edition (2017)
Fiction: "Contrails"
Leonardo Literacy Magazine (2016)
Fiction: "Montgomery"
Student Publications:
Ortega, Silvia. "My Intellectual Maze," Elevations: English Guide for Composition, 2018