People
- Nancy Martin
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- At Rutgers Since: 2019
- Email: nm962.Nancy@rutgers.edu
- Education:
- DPhil English Literature University of Oxford
- MA Women’s and Gender Studies Memorial University
- MA English Literature Carleton University
- BA English Literature Memorial University
- Courses Taught:
Rutgers Writing Program:
- 355:101 Expository Writing
- 355:103 Exposition and Argument
- 355: 201 Research in the Disciplines:
- - Stories of War
- - Creative Rebellion: Art and Activism
Department of Literatures in English:
- 359:202 Principles of Literary Study: Prose
Honors College:
- Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar: Telling Stories of War—from trench letters and diaries to video games and films
- Awards:
- Humanities Plus Initiative Grant, Rutgers University (2021-22)
- Visiting Research Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (Summer 2022)
- Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011-13)
- National Student Essay Prize, Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK/Ireland) (2012-13)
- Maxwell and Meyerson Award, University of Oxford (2013)
- Rothermere Doctoral Fellowship, Rothermere Foundation and Memorial University (2010-13)
- Publications:
Edited Collection:
- Writing War, Writing Lives, ed. by Lara Feigel, Nancy Martin, and Kate McLoughlin (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017)
Book Chapters:
- (forthcoming) ‘A Final Act of Care: Private commemoration, female identity, and the First World War memorial book', Care After the First World War, Social History of Medicine Series, ed. by Alexia Moncrieff (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023)
- ‘“I do want to take a man’s part in this show”: the early war diary as rehearsal stage for the creation and navigation of the newly militarized masculine self’, Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Lauri Ramey (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)
- ‘First World War combatant testimony and the navigation, narration, and aesthetics of self’, Writing the Great War: Francophone and Anglophone Poetics, ed. by N. Bianchi and T. Garfitt (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017)
Articles:
- ‘‘‘And all because it is war!”: First World War diaries, authenticity, and combatant identity’, Textual Practice, 29.7 (2015), pp. 1245-1263
- “The Rose of No Man’s Land [?]”: Femininity, female identity, and women on the western front’, Journal of International Women’s Studies 13.6. (2012), pp. 5-17
