He / Him / His

Zach Muhlbauer

PhD Candidate in English

Digital humanist | Edupunk in the making | Exploring digital literacies and infrastructures @ The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Education

PhD Candidate in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, expected 2025.

M. Phil in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2023.

Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2022.

BA in English and Philosophy, SUNY College at Geneseo, 2017.

Interests

New Literacy Studies, Digital Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy, Composition Studies, Critical Infrastructure Studies

Positions

Presidential Research Fellow, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), CUNY Graduate Center

Grant-Funded Research Assistant (PI: Daniel Libertz), “Public Quantitative Writing: A Discourse-Based Interview Study,” Baruch College, CUNY

Adjunct Lecturer, First-Year Writing Program, English Department, Baruch College
Graduate Teaching Fellow, First-Year Writing Program, English Department, CUNY Graduate Center
Workshop Series Designer, First-Year Experience Program, Queens College
Coordinator for Education and Support, OpenCUNY.org, DGSC Affiliates, CUNY Graduate Center
Graduate Research Fellow, PhD Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center
Digital Pedagogy Consultant, Interdepartmental Studies, SUNY College at Geneseo

Instructional Support Assistant, The Office of the Provost, SUNY College at Geneseo, NY.

Publications

Muhlbauer, Zachary, Stefano Morello, Travis M. Bartley, Nicole Cote and Matthew K. Gold. 2023. “Archival Inversions: Rethinking Knowledge Infrastructures through the CUNY Distance Learning Archive,” in “DH Unbound 2022, Selected Papers,” ed. Barbara Bordalejo, Roopika Risam, and Emmanuel ChâteauDutier, special issue, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 13(3): 1–22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.9673.

Muhlbauer, Zachary. “Using Hypothesis for Social Annotation and Collaborative Learning.” Pedagogy and Praxis, Baruch College, NY. January 2021.

Digital Projects

Teach@CUNY AI Toolkit, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), CUNY Graduate Center, 2023.

CUNY Distance Learning Archive, deposited in CUNY Digital History Archive; with Stefano Morello (Project Manager), Matthew K. Gold (Faculty Advisor), Travis Bartley, and Nicole Cote; CUNY Graduate Center, 2022.

Discord Educational Toolkit: Instructional Design for Class Servers. Capstone project in fulfillment of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2021.

Presentations

“The Promise and Perils of Generative AI: Figuring Out When, How and Why to Use It at CUNY.” CUNY IT Conference 2023, City University of New York, December 2023.

“Archival Inversions: Rethinking Knowledge Infrastructures through the CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” DH Unbound 2022, Association for Computers and the Humanities and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, Virtual, May 2022. 

“Archiving the Present.” Transitions and Transactions: Teaching Literature in the Time of COVID, Keynote Presentation, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, NYC, Apr 2022.

“Just Teaching: Striving for Equitable Pedagogical Policy and Praxis.” 2022 Southern Regional Composition Conference: Keynote Panel, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Virtual, Mar 2022.

“Discord Educational Toolkit: Community Design for Digital Learning Spaces.” CUNY Digital Initiative Lightning Talks, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Virtual, Nov 2021.

“CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) & the CUNY Distance Learning Collections.” DH Projects Discussion, Infrastructural Interventions, Remote, June 2021.

“CUNY Distance Learning Archive.” CUNY Digital Initiative Lightning Talks, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Virtual, Nov 202

“Social Reading and Web Annotation with Hypothesis.” CUNY Writing Disciplinary Council: Teaching Reading Online Webinar Series, Remote. January 2021. 

“In Process: Attaining Iterative Growth in Large-Scale OER Writing Instruction.” Open Education Conference. Phoenix, AZ. October 2019.

“Getting it Together: Encouraging Faculty Support Across a General Education Course.” Open Education Conference, Niagara Falls, NY. October 2018.

“Unconventional: Adopting OER for a Public Liberal Arts Core Writing Course.” Open Education Conference. Niagara Falls, NY. October 2018. 

Workshops & Labs

Co-Lead, Workshop: Fostering Community with Routine and Ritual, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, Winter 2024.

Co-Lead, Workshop: Using Generative AI for Uncreative Writing, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2023.

Co-Lead, Workshop: Course Reconfiguration: Responding to Student Needs, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2023.

Lead, Workshop: Teaching with Discord, Teach@CUNY Summer Institute, Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, Summer 2023.

Lead, Workshop: Managing Your Digital Footprint, OpenCUNY.org, The Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, Spring 2023 and Fall 2023.

Lead, Skills Lab: Introduction to GitHub & Git, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy  Certificate Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Spring 2022-2023.

Lead, Skills Lab: HTML & CSS Basics. Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY, Fall 2020-2022.

Co-Lead, Workshop: Teaching with Discord or Slack, Teach@CUNY Summer Institute, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY, Summer 2021.

Lead, Workshop (Six-Part Series): Workshopping Wikipedia, First-Year Experience Program, Queens College, CUNY, NY, 2020-2021.

Lead, Skills Lab: Introduction to Python, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY, Spring 2021.

Service Work

Community Facilitator, CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY Graduate Center, 2023-Present.

Editorial Collective, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center, 2021-Present.

Committee Member, Website and Editorial, English Student Association (ESA), CUNY Graduate Center, 2019-2022.