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Diana Isabel Martínez

Associate Professor of Communication
Communication Division, Seaver College
Office locationCCB 249
Phone310.506.6833

Biography

Diana Isabel Martínez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Communication Division at Seaver College. Her research explores physical and psychological borderlands, a term coined by Gloria Anzaldúa to describe spaces of social, political, and cultural struggle. She is working on archival research with the Gloria Anzaldúa collection, and she is also interested in issues surrounding social movements, intercultural dialogue, public memory, and visual rhetoric. Her recent published research has appeared in journals such as Western Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly and The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics as well as edited books. She co-edited the monograph Latina/o Communication Studies: Theories, Methods, and Practice. She teaches courses in rhetoric and leadership, communication studies, and culture and serves as the faculty advisor for the Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research. 

Education

  • Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 2010

  • M.A. Syracuse University, 2006

  • B.A. California State University, Long Beach, 2004

 

Books

  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel. Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Archives: Archival Impulses. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
  • Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa, Diana Isabel Bowen, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, and Amanda R. Martinez. (Eds.). Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theory, Method, and Practice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

Journal Articles 

  • Reyes García, Zazil, and Diana Isabel Martínez. Podcasting Latinidad through Crónica, Music and Entrevistas. Western Journal of Communication 85, no. 4 (2021), 451-470. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2021.1885055.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. “Making Sense of Disaster through Rhetorical Homologies: Extending Walter Benjamin’s Unique/Copy Binary to Post-Katrina Tours, Communication Quarterly 66, no. 3 (2018), 265-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2017.1374295
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. “Voices from the Archive: Family Names, Official Documents, and Unofficial Ideologies in the Gloria Anzaldúa Papers.” The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics 1, no. 1 (2017), 26-41.
  • Chambers, Crystal R., and Diana I. Bowen. “My Sister’s Keeper: The Value of Proactive Mentorship for Black Women Undergraduates.” National Association of Student Affairs Professionals (NASAP) Journal 15, no. 2 (2014), 9-24.

Book Chapters

  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Dueling Border Ghosts: Exploring the Equator as a Space of Spirituality and Resistance.” In We Are All Monsters/We Are All Saints: Haunted Migration and LatIndigenous Ghost Stories, edited by Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press.
  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel and Amy Garcia. “Intersectional Rhetorics of Justice in Parenting Practices.” In A Culturally-Centered and Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Justice: An Edited Collection, edited by Tomeka Robinson, Sabrina Singh, and Christina Mary Joseph, 113-130. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel, Jamila Cupid, and Robert Mejia. “Equal Protection Excess: Visualizing the Effects of Christian Nationalism.” In Religious Freedom v. Equal Protection: Clashing American Rights, edited by Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer Asenas, 303-328. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2022.
  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “The Rhetorical Situation and Its Problems: Expanding the Discursive Elements of Educational Contexts, Disability, and Social Movements.” In Communication in the 2020s: Viewing Our World Through the Eyes of Communication Scholars, edited by Christina S. Beck, 115-124. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.
  • Martínez, Diana Isabel. “Intersectionality, Feminism, and Social Movements: The Rhetoric of Nela Martinez.” In Routledge Handbook for the Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media, edited by Nathan Crick, 116-32. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. “Visualizing a Civil Rights Archive: Images of the Sit-In at the Lunch Counter and Other Objects.” In Like a Fire: The Rhetoric of Civil Rights Sit-Ins, edited by Sean Patrick O’Rourke and Lesli K. Pace, 279-91. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2020.
  • De Los Santos-Upton, Sarah, Diana Isabel Bowen, and Leandra Hinojosa Hernández. “Border Activism in Braiding Borders + Trenzando Fronteras.” In Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theory, Method, and Practice, edited by Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Diana Isabel Bowen, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, and Amanda R. Martinez, 229-50. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
  • Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Diana Isabel Bowen, and Amanda R. Martinez. Introduction to Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theory, Method, and Practice, edited by Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Diana Isabel Bowen, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, and Amanda R. Martinez, 1-43. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
  • Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Diana Isabel Bowen, and Amanda R. Martinez. Introduction to Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theory, Method, and Practice, edited by Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Diana Isabel Bowen, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, and Amanda R. Martinez, 1-43. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. “Remembering Anzaldúa Globally through a Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges.” In This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis, edited by Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Robert Gutierrez-Perez, 157-81. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

     

  • * Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus of the National Communication Association, Edited Book Award in 2021

    * Organization for the Study of Language and Gender, Outstanding Edited Book Award in 2020

  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. “Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa: From Borderlands to Nepantla.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Dana Cloud. Oxford University Press, 2018. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.606.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel, and Susannah Bannon. “Hurricane Katrina Goes Digital: Memory, Dark Tours, and YouTube.” In Essays in Virtual Dark Tourism, edited by Kathryn N. McDaniel, 205-24. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Seahorn, Christal, Diana Isabel Bowen, Charles Jeffery Darwin, and Dragana Djordievic. “Kinetic Typography: Reinserting Embodied Delivery into Recorded Oral Texts.” In Matters of Type: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms, edited by Christopher Scott Wyatt and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, 334-63. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. [Review of the book Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age, edited by Kendall R. Phillips & G. Mitchell Reyes]. In Regional Rhetorics: Real and Imagined Spaces, edited by Jenny Rice, 97-107. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel, and Paul Fortunato. “Memory and Interfaith Dialogue in the Context of Globalization.” In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue: Living within the Abrahamic Traditions, edited by Daniel S. Brown, Jr., 67-81. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
  • Fortunato, Paul, and Diana Isabel Bowen. “Deliberative Democracy and Interreligious Dialogue: An Applied Perspective. In Interfaith Dialogue in Practice: Christian, Muslim, Jew, edited by Daniel S. Brown, Jr., 139-52. Kansas City, MO: Rockhurst University Press, 2013.

Book Reviews

  • Martínez, Diana Isabel. [Review of the book Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination, edited by Casey Ryan Kelley and Jason Edward Black.] Quarterly Journal of Speech 106, no. 3 (2020), 352-75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2020.1786626.
  • Martίnez, Diana Isabel. [Review of the book Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border, by Nina Maria Lozano.] Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50, no. 4 (2020), 297-304. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2020.1785819.
  • Bowen, Diana Isabel. [Review of the book Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age, edited by Kendall R. Phillips & G. Mitchell Reyes]. Rhetoric and Society Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2012), 300-3.

*Reprinted in Jenny Rice (Ed.). Regional Rhetorics: Real and Imagined Spaces, 97-107. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

Topics

  • Latina/o/x Communication Studies
  • Social Movements
  • Archival Research
  • Public Memory & Visual Culture
  • Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
  • Critical & Cultural Studies

Courses

  • Introduction to Rhetorical Research
  • Introduction to Communication
  • Introduction to Public Speaking
  • Introduction to Intercultural Communication
  • Persuasion Across Platforms
  • Advanced Rhetorical Criticism