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About Morteza Hajizadeh
My name is Morteza Hajizadeh. I am a Ph.D. graduate in English Literature at the University of Auckland. My Ph.D. dissertation was on environmental history and the British gothic novels of the 18th and 19th centuries with a focus on gender and ecofeminism. My areas of research interest are Postcolonialism, Medieval Intellectual History, Critical Theory, Film Studies, Middle East Studies, and Gothic Studies.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.
NBN Episodes hosted by Morteza:
July 22, 2024
Fascism in America
Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered expe…
July 9, 2024
The Women Are Up to Something
The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris …
July 7, 2024
Cunning Folk
Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facin…
July 4, 2024
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, pr…
June 30, 2024
Capitalism
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? I…
June 24, 2024
Europe Against Revolution
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and c…
June 21, 2024
How Plato Writes
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, parad…
June 16, 2024
Virtue Capitalists
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the profe…
June 15, 2024
Resistance from the Right
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren L…
June 9, 2024
Profit
Profit ― getting more out of something than you put into it ― is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in …
June 1, 2024
The Book of Japanese Folklore
Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their …
May 28, 2024
Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to th…
May 25, 2024
Women and the Crusades
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration. Helen J. Nicholson's book Wo…
May 19, 2024
Resistance to Evidence
We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to e…
May 18, 2024
Empire of Guns
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution transformed Britain from an agricultural and artisanal economy to one domina…
May 3, 2024
The Gender of Capital
In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitativ…
April 25, 2024
A Global Enlightenment
Alexander Statman's book A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a revisionist history of the idea of …
April 23, 2024
Pet Revolution
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (Reaktion Books, 2023) tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centur…
April 22, 2024
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of…
April 5, 2024
The Big Myth
In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, in The Big Myth: Ho…
April 2, 2024
Merits of the Plague
Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bu…
March 31, 2024
Lifestyle Revolution
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washin…
March 31, 2024
Kant, Race, and Racism
Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his…
March 29, 2024
The Black Antifascist Tradition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles…