Texas Speech: Contact Information

Martin Cox

Prof. Martin "Randy" Cox

Full Professor of Instruction; Director of Texas Speech

 

Dept. of Communication Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2504A Whitis Ave (A1105)
Austin, TX 78712-1089
Office: 512-471-1957
Email: mrcox@austin.utexas.edu

Randy Cox is the administrative director/head coach of the Moody College's Texas Speech Team. A founding member of UT's competitive speech team and a former national champion himself, his students have been graced with national titles at both the high school and collegiate levels, and have also been awarded national team titles including the NFL Bruno E. Jacob Trophy, the NCFL Masterson and Founders’ awards, National Forensic Association Division and Cumulative Titles, as well as seven American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament team titles (in four different decades). Prof. Cox served previously as Co-Director of the team from 1991-1994 before serving for five years as Co-Director of forensics for Boston's Milton Academy, where he was a Diamond coach for the National Speech and Debate Association. Prof. Cox has been recognized by the Texas Speech Communication Association as the University Educator of the Year (2006), and also by the Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association in 2008. In 2013 he was awarded both the Moody College of Communication Teaching Excellence Award and the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Educator Award. He is a past President of the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association (TIFA) and past Executive Secretary of the Texas Speech Communication Association (TSCA), has served multiple terms as Chair of District 3 of the AFA-NST serving the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, and one of the founders of the UT National Institute in Forensics established in 1994 to provide summer program opportunities for high school students involved in speech & debate.

 

 

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Prof. Eva Margarita

Assistant Instructor; Communication Studies

 

Dept. of Communication Studies
University of Texas at Austin
2504A Whitis Ave (A1105)
Austin, TX 78712-1089
Office: 512-471-1957
 

Eva is a doctoral student in Rhetoric & Language and is an assistant director for Texas Speech, where she was the lead coach for the 2021 NFA national championship by Kimberly Lee in Prose Interpretation, as well as the 2022 NFA national championship by Valeria Najera in the same event. She completed her Master of Arts in Performance Studies at New York University. Having previously competed at Concordia University Irvine and Los Angeles City College, Eva has been in national elim 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. In 2022, Eva was invited as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow for the Transnational Dialogues Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, engaging in discussions of the African Diaspora in Latin America and Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S.