Dr. Eva Margarita

Director of Texas Speech

Dept. of Communication Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2504A Whitis Ave (A1105)
Austin, TX 78712-1089
Office: 512-666-0146
 

The 2023 recipient of the American Forensic Association's Outstanding Young Coach Award, Eva is the Director of Texas Speech as well as the UTNIF Speech camp. Among her many coaching highlights Eva co-directed the 2022, 2023, and 2024 American Forensic Association national team championships, was the lead for the 2021, 2022, AND 2023 NFA Prose national champions, the 2024 AFA and NFA 2024 Duo national champions, as well as the NSDA 2023 Spoken Word Poetry national champion. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from UT Austin and Master’s in Performance Studies from NYU. Having previously competed at Concordia University Irvine and Los Angeles City College, Eva has been in national out rounds for Rhetorical Criticism, Informative Speaking, and Drama, with national final round performances in Prose, Poetry, and Duo. She was a top 15 overall speaker for the National Forensic Association tournament and top 20 overall speaker for the American Forensic Association. As a multi-faceted performance artist herself, Eva cares deeply about building pieces with students that pierce imaginaries to create new worlds.