Charles McMartin
English
Assistant Professor
Biography
Charles McMartin is an Assistant Professor of English specializing in Composition at Utah State University Tooele. He earned his PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona in May 2024. His research focuses on culturally sustaining pedagogies, community writing, student activism, and NextGen faculty and staff leaders. His work has been published in College English, Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, Reflections, and Peitho. His forthcoming coedited collection with Utah State University Press is titled Next-Gen Perspectives: Stories, Lessons, and Critiques of Leadership in Higher Education. As a former high school English teacher, he advocates for turning the focus of universities toward their local schools and empowering students to become leaders in their communities and professions. He teaches English 1010 and English 2020. Dr. McMartin is particularly interested in studying the coalitional leadership of past and present student activists in his local context.
Dr. McMartin is available to serve on graduate thesis committees related to any aspect of rhetoric and composition, cultural-sustaining pedagogies, community writing, leadership, or pedagogy.