Marty Heath
Doctoral Candidate
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About
Marty is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Their work brings together thinking from Feminist Studies, STS, and Disability Studies to explore questions of narrative and representation.
Some of this work includes the analysis of popular and narrative media, while other projects focus on narratives of the self. Their dissertation engages interviews and visual analysis to explore how people who use prosthetic limbs relate to those objects as technologies which have functional, aesthetic, and social features & what narratives of prosthetic limb adoption tell us about what these objects mean to their users.
Marty has published in PuntOorg International Journal, received awards for Top Student Papers for both the National and International Communication Associations, and been invited to speak at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute and Arizona State University.
This year, Marty is teaching COMM 140 (Fundamentals of Social Media & Communication) and LAS 110 (Experience UIC, a 1st year seminar). In the past, they have taught COMM 100 (public speaking) and acted as a TA for COMM 101 (intro to comm) and 102 (interpersonal comm).
Education
Disability Ethics Certificate - University of Illinois, Chicago (2023)
M.A. - Communication, Arizona State University (2019)
B.A. - Communication & Dance, The George Washington University (2017)