Eternity Martis

Dr. Eternity Martis is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism. She is an award-winning journalist and editor whose work on race and gender has appeared in The Huffington Post, VICE, Chatelaine, Maclean’s, Flare, Salon, CBC, Hazlitt, The Walrus, Refinery29, The Fader, Complex and more, including on academic syllabi around the world. In 2020, Dr. Martis developed “Reporting On Race: The Black Community in the Media,” the first reporting course of its kind in Canada. She is the co-lead of the Reporting in Black Communities project, a guide and resource kit for journalists, educators and students to report on Black communities in Canada with equity, dignity and accuracy. She is also the author of the bestselling, award-winning memoir about  "They Said This Would Be Fun." about her experience as a Black woman at a predominantly white university. The book is the winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-fiction.

Dr. Martis brings a deep understanding of students' experiences from underrepresented backgrounds and of media coverage of marginalized communities. She has also been a writing coach for several years, specializing in sensitivity reading, with clients including journalism students, professors, TEDx speakers, published authors, and financial advisers, ranging in age from 18 to 60+.