Anna B. Zeemont, Ph.D.

Anna Zeemont (she/they) is a teacher-scholar of composition-rhetoric, American studies, education studies, and queer feminisms and Assistant Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at SUNY Buffalo State. 

 

Broadly, Anna's research interrogates the politics of literacy across educational institutions and urban geographies, highlighting the pedagogical, intellectual, and rhetorical work of students and activists plugged into abolitionist and anti-colonial movements.  Her work has been (or will be) published in Community Literacy, Kairos, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, and elsewhere. Anna's monograph in progress, “The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s, is an archival project tracing visionary, radical, student literacies produced on and off campus—zines, early blogs, newspapers, and more—within the late 20ᵗʰ century’s shifting educational, disciplinary, and geopolitical contexts. Her scholarly and pedagogical work has been supported by fellowships/awards from the Rhetoric Society of America, the New York Public Library, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and more.

 

Anna has worked as an educator across a number of settings: university classrooms, writing centers, faculty development, nonprofits, secondary schooling, and more. She is deeply passionate about critical, student-centered, justice-oriented, and multimodal approaches to teaching and learning. She earned her PhD in English with a Certificate in American Studies from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and her BA in English and Biology from Oberlin College..