Rate My Professor Linda English

Linda English is a Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She earned her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Oklahoma in 2005. Prior to her appointment at UTRGV in 2011 as an Assistant Professor, she served as a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Northern Colorado. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and subsequently to full Professor. English teaches courses on Texas History, the American West, Modern American Women’s History, and Gender in the American West.

Her scholarship focuses on race, class, and gender in late nineteenth-century Texas and Indian Territory, along with gender perspectives on the Texas Revolution. Key publications include her monograph By All Accounts: General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2013, and Run for Your Lives! Gendered Confrontations and the Runaway Scrape, issued by Texas A&M University Press in 2024. The latter received the Armitage-Jameson Award for Best Monograph Published in Western Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History from the Coalition for Western Women’s History at the Western History Association conference in 2025, accompanied by a $1,000 prize. She has authored articles in American Nineteenth Century History, Great Plains Quarterly, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Chronicles of Oklahoma, and Central Texas Studies. English has also published multiple book reviews, including those of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America, Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona, The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867, and Women in Texas History. In recognition of her research, she received the College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Excellence Award for Research at the University of Texas-Pan American (now UTRGV) for the 2014-2015 academic year. English has held leadership roles, including a three-year term as Steering Committee Chair for the Coalition for Western Women’s History, current membership on its Professional Development and Mentoring Committee, and service on committees for the Western History Association and Texas State Historical Association.