Ph.D. - Literature
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2021
Professional Preparation
M.A. - Aesthetic Studies - Creative Writing
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2017
The University of Texas at Dallas - 2017
B.A. - Journalism
New Mexico State University - 2009
New Mexico State University - 2009
Research Areas
CUSLAI Community Digital Archive Project 2020 - present
As a research assistant for the CUSLAI, while working on her Ph.D., Muñoz helped establish the CUSLAI Community Digital Archive Project in 2020, securing a $30,000 grant through the Texas Women’s Foundation for the high-resolution equipment needed to digitize historical documents. In 2021, she finalized another $30,000 grant for a Texas organization providing humanitarian outreach to migrants and at-risk asylum seekers while finishing her Human Subjects Protection IRB Training. In 2022, she began conducting video interviews for digital histories and humanities projects, producing original photography of multigenerational and double-hybridized Border families, detained migrants, and asylum seekers situated along the US-Mexico Border, and focusing on subjects relevant to her concept of double hybridization.Mellon Applied History Fellow at the Center of the American West - Present
The Center of the American West is a recognized hub for illuminating the role of the western United States in regional, national and global issues, bringing people together to explore the ongoing complexities of and challenges facing the western United States through education, research, programs, and projects.Publications
El Bowie Bakery. TCU Press, 2024. — Children's Book
“Pride and Preservation: Double Hybridization and Urbanization on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, Pending. — Scholarly article
“Autoethnography: Preserving the History of the Resilient U.S.-Mexico Border Peoples.” The Barcelona Conference on Education, 2022. — Scholarly article
"Border Sisters.” Blue Mesa Review. University of New Mexico, 2020. — Nonfiction short story
“Aztlán: From Mythos to Logos in the American Southwest. Borders in Globalization Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 54-65. — Scholarly article
“My Name in Brown.” riverSedge, vol. 28, no. 1, 2015, pp. 24-33, 2015. — Nonfiction short story
“El Bowie Bakery.” Columbia Journal, Columbia University, June 3, 2014. — Nonfiction short story
“My Obsessive-Compulsive Boob Behavior.” Concho River Review, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 47-55, 2014. — Nonfiction short story
- publications
“Pride and Preservation: Double Hybridization and Urbanization on the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, Pending. — Scholarly article
“Autoethnography: Preserving the History of the Resilient U.S.-Mexico Border Peoples.” The Barcelona Conference on Education, 2022. — Scholarly article
"Border Sisters.” Blue Mesa Review. University of New Mexico, 2020. — Nonfiction short story
“Aztlán: From Mythos to Logos in the American Southwest. Borders in Globalization Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 54-65. — Scholarly article
“My Name in Brown.” riverSedge, vol. 28, no. 1, 2015, pp. 24-33, 2015. — Nonfiction short story
“El Bowie Bakery.” Columbia Journal, Columbia University, June 3, 2014. — Nonfiction short story
“My Obsessive-Compulsive Boob Behavior.” Concho River Review, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 47-55, 2014. — Nonfiction short story
- publications
Awards
Mellon Applied History Fellow - Center of the American West [2023]
Induction - Honor Society Foundation [2020]
Induction - The Society for Collegiate Leadership [2020]
“Border Sisters” - Blue Mesa Review Contest Nonfiction Prize Winner [2020]
Induction - Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society [2019]
Distinguished Donor - Hispanic 100 Latina Giving Circle [2019]
Excellence in Volunteer Service Awards nominee - Junior League of Collin County [2018]
Student Nonfiction Prize winner - Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers [2017]
Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology [2022–2024]
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology [2022–2024]
Interim Director of CUSLAI (Center for US-Latin America Initiatives)
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2022–2024]
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2022–2024]
Instructor
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2021–2022]
The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2021–2022]
Research Assistant
Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2019–2020]
Texas at Dallas, School of Art, Humanities, and Technology [2019–2020]
Presentations
“The Sky as a Borderless Space: Transborderism in US- Mexico Border and South African Literary Fiction”
Conference on Border Studies - Transborderism – Reimagining Social Space. University of Tamaulipas and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2023.“Lady Boner”
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Texas A&M, Lubbock, Texas, 2023.“Autoethnography as a Teaching Tool”
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 2022.Guest speaker at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Dallas Chapter and Collegiate Chapter breakfast, 2022.
“From Autoethnography to Children’s Books”
SoulWhat Podcast: Metaphysics, Soul and Spirituality, 2022.Additional Information
A Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of CUSLAI (Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives) at The University of Texas at Dallas, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, Muñoz completed her Ph.D. in 2021, where her dissertation, “Double Hybridization and Bordercanx Literary Works: How the United States Turned Mexican Americans into the Forgotten People,” became a hybrid work on a distinct population within the Latinx community. In 2020, she established the CUSLAI Community Digital Archive Project to record the oral histories of this community. Utilizing her concept of “double hybridization” and autoethnography research methodology resulted in her children’s book, El Bowie Bakery, currently under contract with TCU Press. Her other works have been featured in Borders in Globalization Review and Columbia Journal. In 2020, she won the Blue Mesa Review Nonfiction Prize for “Border Sisters” and has presented articles at The University Culture Centre in Bialystok, Poland and the University of Barcelona, Spain. She was selected as a 2022-2023 Mellon Applied History Fellow and is currently working on her next children’s book.
News Articles
“Corners of the Heart.”
Frisco Life, June 2020.“Inspiring Women Issue.”
Frisco Life, May 2020.Affiliations
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
Association for Borderlands Studies
Latin American Studies Association
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
National Women’s Studies Association
Sigma Tau Delta
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
Southwestern Social Science Association
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
Western Historical Association
American Studies Association
Association for Borderlands Studies
Latin American Studies Association
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
National Women’s Studies Association
Sigma Tau Delta
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
Southwestern Social Science Association
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
Western Historical Association