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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.

NBN Episodes hosted by Morteza:

Critical Theory May 31, 2023

Anarchism

A Very Short Introduction

Alex Prichard

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What …
British Studies May 19, 2023

Eating the Empire

Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Troy Bickham

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware …
Early Modern History May 11, 2023

An Artful Relic

The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy

Andrew R. Casper

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the …
Medicine May 10, 2023

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912

Michael Brown

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for both surgeons and …
Technology May 8, 2023

Extinct

A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused—superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects …
Intellectual History April 13, 2023

The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities

An Intellectual History, 1400-1800

Christopher S. Celenza

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 (Cambridge UP …
Intellectual History April 7, 2023

The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time

Helen Small

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is …
Critical Theory April 5, 2023

Practical Anarchism

A Guide for Daily Life

Scott Branson

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From relationships to school, work, art, even the way you organise your time, anarchism …
Film April 4, 2023

Italian Political Cinema

Figure of the Long '68

Mauro Resmini

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. To illustrate this …
American Studies April 1, 2023

The Racial Railroad

Julia H. Lee

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For …
Critical Theory March 31, 2023

After Marx

Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP, 2022) demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an …
Public Health March 27, 2023

Stuck

How Vaccine Rumors Start - and why They Don't Go Away

Heidi J. Larson

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending …
Literary Studies March 19, 2023

The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

Arya Aryan

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd’s …
Literary Studies March 18, 2023

James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade

Erotics of Exile

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s …
Literary Studies March 17, 2023

Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism

Humility and Humiliation

Rick de Villiers

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of …
Intellectual History March 16, 2023

Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century

The German Tradition

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism …
Literary Studies March 11, 2023

John Trevisa's Information Age

Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400

Emily Steiner

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author …
British Studies March 11, 2023

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Alison Stone

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon …
American Studies March 10, 2023

Hollywood's Embassies

How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World

Ross Melnick

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American …
British Studies March 8, 2023

Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England

Selected Correspondence

Jacqueline Broad

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris …
Medieval History March 8, 2023

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The extraordinary array of images included in The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge UP, 2018) reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from …
Economic and Business History March 3, 2023

The Slave Ship

A Human History

Marcus Rediker

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth …
Medieval History February 25, 2023

Margery Kempe

A Mixed Life

Anthony Bale

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (Reaktion Books, 2022) is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had fourteen children, traveled all over Europe and …
Critical Theory February 17, 2023

We Are Cuba!

How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Helen Yaffe

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place …