Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Year Started at JMU: 2002
marti2cs@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Education
M.A., English Literature, Virginia Tech, 1997
B.A., English/Professional Writing, James Madison University, 1993
Professional Focuses
Perceptions and stigma of diabetes, digital rhetoric, document design, and editing
Publications
Martin, Cynthia. "The Monstering of Diabetes: The Failure of Fear and Sarcasm in Public Health PSAs." (Un)Doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture, edited by Bianca Frazer and Heather Walker, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 241-256, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83110-3.
Martin, Cynthia. "Transforming Diabetes Stigma: The Role of Counternarrative in Sports Media." Stories of Sport: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption and Dissemination, edited by Katherin Garland, Katie Shepherd Dredger, Crystal L. Beach, and Cathy Leogrande, Lexington, 2021.
Martin, Cindy. "Let’s Stop with the Food Rewards, And Here’s Why." Scary Mommy, 3 October 2018, https://www.scarymommy.com/non-food-rewards.
Martin, Cynthia. "The Researched Argument: An Alternative to the ‘Regurgitation’ Research Paper." Virginia English Bulletin, Fall 2008.
