Celest Martin
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: Chafee 224Phone: 401-874-4570
Email: celestmartin614@gmail.com
Bio
Celest Martin has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Southern California (1979). She has taught at URI for 30 years and published in rhet/comp, disability studies, and creative nonfiction. During that time she has mentored over 20 graduate students as major professor, and served as a committee member for many others.She has been an active member of the Faculty Senate and the Joint Strategic Planning Committee, as well as other Senate, College and Departmental committees. She is also an active member of the disability community in Rhode Island, and has produced much influential public writing.
Current research and teaching interests include application of rhetorical strategies to the teaching of Journalism, Disability Studies, and creative nonfiction. She has two publications forthcoming in early 2010: a chapter on the uses of nonfiction in the writing major to be published in a book on The Writing Major by Utah State University Press; and "Perfection by any Other Name," a creative nonfiction piece on parenting a child with a disability in the 2010 Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology.
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Raising Awareness
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Associate Professor Celest Martin is teaching a class called Different But Not Less: Social, Political and Ethical Issues in Disability, as part of URI's Grand Challenge series for first-year students. 