Linda Martz
Professor
- Department: History and Politics
- Complementary Department(s): Comparative Literature and English
Professor Martz鈥檚 research interests include women鈥檚 history and gender studies, particularly women鈥檚 access to institutions and women鈥檚 activism, as well as the interface between religion and public life. She researches and publishes on nineteenth and early twentieth century British movements where these interfaces were significant, such as the Salvation Army and the militant suffrage movement, as well as on aspects of California鈥檚 regional religious culture during the same period, with a special interest in Pentecostalism and early Fundamentalism.聽
Education/Degrees
- Doctorate, University of Paris VII
- DEA, University of Paris VII
- Ma卯trise, University of Paris VII
- Certificate Year in Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics, UCLA
- BA, Scripps College
Publications
- 鈥淢ary Neal and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence: from mission to activism.鈥� Women鈥檚 History Review 23.4, 2014, pp 620-641.
- 鈥淢oved to Minister: Christabel Pankhurst and Aimee Semple MacPherson in Los Angeles.鈥�, Women on the Move: refugees, migration and exile. Ed.聽 Fiona Reid and Katherine Holden. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 76-92.
- 鈥淔rederick Pethick-Lawrence(1871-1961) : L鈥檋omme parmi les suffragettes.鈥� Ces homes qui 茅pous猫rent la cause des femmes. Ed. Martine Monacelli and Michel Prum. Paris : Les Editions de l鈥橝telier, 2010.163-176.
- 60 茅tapes-cl茅 de la civilisation anglo-saxonne (all-French edition). C. Loubinac, C. Loubignac, F. Fichaux, A. Higgie, and L. Martz. Collection Optimum, F. Fichaux editor. Paris: Editions Ellipses, 2008.
- Linda Martz and Anita Higgie, Eds. Notions of Identity in Detective Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, November 2007.聽
- 鈥淪uffragette Fictions: the re-construction of militant identity in Gillian Linscott鈥檚 Nell Bray novels.鈥� Notions of Identity in Detective Fiction. Linda Martz and Anita Higgie, Eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, November 2007 153-163.
- 60 fiches de civilisation britannique et am茅ricaine (bilingual edition). With A. Higgie et C. Loubinac. (Paris: Ellipses Edition) 2006. Second edition 2012.
- Comment pr茅parer le TOEFL en 10 jours, with R. Rast and F. Fichaux, Collection Optimum, F. Fichaux editor (Paris: Ellipses Edition), 2006.
- 鈥淎n AIDS-Era assessment of Christabel Pankhurst鈥檚 The Great Scourge and How To End It.鈥� Women鈥檚 History Review 14.3 /4, November 2005, 435-447.
- Fiches de civilisation britannique et am茅ricaine (bilingual edition). With C. Loubinac. (Paris: Ellipses Edition). Fourth edition, 2018.
- 鈥淟a Plume Blanche: patriotisme, pacifisme, et neutralit茅 chez les suffragettes britanniques.鈥� 1914: Neutralit茅, Neutralismes en Question, edited by Ineke Bockting, B茅atrice Fonck, and Pauline Piettre, Peter Lang, 2017, pp 257-270.
- 鈥淐alling vs. Profession: the Arguments over Professionalizing Nursing in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.鈥� La Vocation au F茅minin, R茅sonnances 15-1, 2015, pp 67-82. (appeared 2016)
- Linda Martz and Ineke Bockting, Eds. Both Swords and Ploughshares: Interactions of War, Peace, and Religion in America from the War of Independence to the Present. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- 鈥淭he World鈥檚 Unrest: War in the Writings of Christabel Pankhurst, British Suffragette Turned American Fundamentalist.鈥� Both Swords and Ploughshares: Interactions of War, Peace, and Religion in America from the War of Independence to the Present. Ed. Linda Martz and Ineke Bockting. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp 128-141.聽
- Fiches de civilisation britannique et am茅ricaine (bilingual edition). With C. Loubinac. (Paris: Ellipses Edition). Third edition, 2014.聽
Affiliations
Martz聽is a member and associate board member of the West of England and South Wales region of the Women鈥檚 History Network, and a member of the CRPA (Culture et Religions dans les Pays Anglophones), which is currently housed by the Universit茅 d鈥橝ngers.聽