Marty  Heath

I, Marty Heath (they/them), earned my PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2025. My research brings together thinking from Media Studies, Disability Studies, Feminist Studies, and Science and Technology 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.  My dissertation engages a mixed methods approach 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.

I have published articles in PuntOorg International Journal, Spectrum, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and presented my work at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, the National and International Communication Associations, and the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, amongst others.