Diana Isabel Martínez

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 Editing

• Baugh-Harris, Sara, and Diana Isabel Martínez. “Expanding Latine Imaginaries: A Forum on Critical Possibilities within and beyond Latinidad.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 11, no. 4 (2025): 669–72. 

Journal Articles 

• Martínez, Diana Isabel, and Zazil Reyes García. “Creating a Latine Imaginary via Radionovela in the Republic of Ecuador.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 111, no. 4 (2025): 714–21.
• 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

• García, Zazil Reyes, and Diana Isabel Martínez. “Marginalized Narratives in True Crime.” In Challenging Representation and Genre in True Crime Media: The Power of Disruptive Storytelling, edited by Victoria McDermott, Leandra Hernández, and Amy May, 61–84. Lanham, MD: Bloomsbury Press, 2026.
• Martínez, Diana Isabel. “Framing/Enacting Environmental Justice: The Rhetoric of Nemonte Nenquimo.” In Intersectional Change-Makers in Environmental Activism, edited by Emma Frances Bloomfield and José Castro-Sotomayor, 179–200, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2025.
• Mejia, Robert, and Diana Isabel Martínez. “Latine Rhetorics.” In Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power, edited by Atila Hallsby. University of Minnesota Open Educational Resource, 2022/2025.
• 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, 2024.
  *Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture in 2025
• 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, 2023.
• 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 Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s), by José G. Izaguirre III.] Journal for the History of Rhetoric 29, no. 1 (2026), 70–73.
• Martínez, Diana Isabel. [Review of the book Radiophonic Feminisms: Latina Voices in the Digital Age of Broadcasting, by Esther Díaz Martín.] Critical Studies in Media Communication, (2025), 371–73.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• Top Paper Award for the Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2025.
• Alpha Alpha Alpha (Tri-Alpha) Honor Society, Inducted as Faculty Member of the First-Generation Honor Society, Pepperdine University, 2025.
• Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship Award, National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus, 2024.
• Award of Academic Excellence in Publishing Solo-Authored Monograph Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Archives: Archival Impulses, 2022.
• Top Paper Panel for the Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2021.

• Martínez, Diana Isabel. “NCA Scholars’ Office Hours.” Invited Scholar for the Scholars Office Hours for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2026.

• Martínez, Diana Isabel, and Zazil Reyes García. “Marginalized Narratives in True Crime.” Individual Paper Presentation for the La Raza Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Denver, CO, November 2025. 

• Martínez, Diana Isabel, and Robert Mejia. “Towards an Anzaldúan Philosophy of Communication.” Individual Paper for the Philosophy of Communication Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
• Martínez, Diana Isabel. “NCA Scholars’ Office Hours.” Invited Scholar for the Scholars Office Hours for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. November 2024.
• Martínez, Diana Isabel. “Response to Catherine Palczewski's Practices of Looking at Rhetoric on the Edge of Livability, Grief, and Visibility.” Presenter for the Public Address Conference Biannual Conference, Austin, TX. September 2024.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Framing/Enacting Environmental Justice: The Rhetoric of Nemonte Nenquimo.” Individual Paper for the Activism and Social Justice Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023. 
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel, and Amy Garcia. “Intersectional Rhetorics of Justice in Parenting Practices.” Co-author for the Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel, and Stephanie Gomez (Seaver Advertising Student). “La Raza Mentorship Gathering.” Co-panelist for the La Raza Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “The State of Feminist Scholarship in the Communication Discipline.” Panel Discussant for the Feminist and Gender Studies Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “CORPUS: Are Women’s Bodies Really Free? The Rise of True Crime Media and its Relationship to Necropolitics.” Panel Discussant for the Women’s Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “N.C.A. Scholars’ Office Hours.” Presenter for the Scholars’ Office Hours for the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Comadrisma Collective: Envisioning and Co-creating Communities of Care.” Panel Discussant for the La Raza Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Upton, Sarah, Hernandez, Leandra H., Martinez, Amanda, and Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Comadrisma: A Chicana Feminist Collective Approach to Writing, Editing, and Mentorship.” Co-author for the Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division for the annual meeting for the National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.
• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Celebrating Charles H. Woolbert Award Winner Lisa Flores. Panel Discussant for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2022.

• Martίnez, Diana Isabel. “Transformative Possibilities in Nepantla Autopathography and the Politics of Crisis.” Individual Paper Presentation for the Top Papers for the Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, November 2021. *Top Paper Award

• Martínez, Diana Isabel and Kampton Carter. “Belonging and Social Justice Grant,” Seaver College, Pepperdine University: Grant Approved in 2025 for $9,500. ($7,500 student and 2,000 faculty)
• Martínez, Diana Isabel and Ariana Bribiesca. “Belonging and Social Justice Grant,” Seaver College, Pepperdine University: Grant Approved in 2025 for $9,500. ($7,500 student and 2,000 faculty)
• Bowen, Diana Isabel. "Archival Crossings: Gloria Anzaldúa, Rhetorical History, and Public Memory," Dean's Research Grant, Pepperdine University/ Decision: Grant Approved in 2019 for $1,500.

• Bowen, Diana Isabel. "(Re)Membering Anzaldúa: Rhetoric, Memory, and Archives," Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Houston-Clear Lake Application Number FRSF # 1139/ Decision: Grant Approved in 2015 for $3,800.

• “Seaver College Professor Diana Martínez Earns Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship Award from National Communication Association,” Seaver College Newsroom, October 2024. https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/articles/10-14-24-diana-martinez.htm 
• “Latinx Community Share the Pride They Feel for Their Heritage,” Pepperdine University Graphic, November 2023. https://pepperdine-graphic.com/latinx-community-share-the-pride-they-feel-for-their-heritage/ 
• “Diana Isabel Martínez Publishes Book, Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers: Archival Impulses,” Seaver College Newsroom, April 2022. https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/2022/04/diana-isabel-martinez-publishes-book-rhetorics-nepantla-memory-and-gloria-evangelina/
• “Pepp Prof Profile: Communication Professor Diana Martínez Says Teaching at Pepperdine Is Her ‘Dream Job,’” Life and Arts, Pepperdine University Graphic, March 2021. http://pepperdine-graphic.com/pepp-prof-profile-communication-professor-diana-martnez-says-teaching-at-pepperdine-is-her-dream-job/ 
• “Diana Martinez Analyzes Visual Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-ins.” Seaver College Newsroom, September 2020. https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/articles/diana-martinez-analyzes-visual-rhetoric-civil-rights-sit-ins.htm
• "Traveling Scholar on Crossing Borders." Radio interview on 90.3 KEDM Public Radio, March 2017. http://kedm.org/post/traveling-scholar-crossing-borders#stream/0

• "Communication Program Features Traveling Scholar Dr. Diana Bowen," March 2017. https://www.ulm.edu/news/2017/0313-traveling-scholar-series-bowen.html