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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:
October 6, 2024
Haunted Britain
Today I talked to Kyle Falcon about his book Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War (Manchester UP, 2023). The Great War…
October 4, 2024
Liberalism as a Way of Life
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liber…
October 3, 2024
The Enthusiast
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of a character type that was develope…
October 2, 2024
Iran and French Orientalism
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (Bloomsbury. 2…
October 1, 2024
In the Land of Marvels
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the cele…
September 27, 2024
Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, thou…
September 23, 2024
The Myth of Disenchantment
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josep…
September 9, 2024
Literary Mathematics
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re…
September 6, 2024
Me and My House
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” …
September 4, 2024
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these q…
September 3, 2024
Darwin Mythology
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception…
August 28, 2024
Marx's Literary Style
In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx’s work results from a fai…
August 21, 2024
Beauty Is in the Street
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the str…
August 17, 2024
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's h…
August 17, 2024
The Birth of Territory
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled p…
August 8, 2024
Free Market
After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The …
July 31, 2024
Cooperation
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperati…
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…