Marty Heath
Doctoral Candidate
Pronouns: They/Them
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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 presented their work for University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, the National Communication Association, the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, amongst others, and regularly contributes to InMediaRes: A Media Commons Project.
Marty teaches COMM 100 (public speaking) and LAS 110 (1st year experience) and has acted as a TA for COMM 101 (intro to comm) and 102 (interpersonal comm).
As a PhD student, Marty has become increasingly interested in the concept of care and cyborgs.
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)