Research Interests
History of Philosophy (early modern feminist philosophy; philosophy of education; liberalism); Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Women's Writing; Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Critical Theory; History of the Novel
Education
- Ph.D., English, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
- M.Phil., Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge (UK), 1992
- A.B., English and Economics, Bryn Mawr College, 1989
Awards and Honors
- LAS Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 2024
- Senior Research Fellowship, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-16
- Humanities Release-Time Fellowship, Campus Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2015 and Spring 2006
- Visiting Fellowship, Trinity College, Oxford University (UK), Hilary Term 2013
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of English, Cornell University, 2003-04 (two-year fellowship; declined second year of support)
- List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (26 + times; virtually every semester taught since 2011)
Courses Taught
Graduate courses
- The Pursuit of 'True and Solid' Happiness: Hedonism and Virtue in Enlightenment Letters
- Feminism and Liberalism in the Enlightenment
- Enlightenment Narratives of Education
- Women's Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Rousseau, Feminism, and Romanticism
- George Eliot and the Contours of Realism
- Novel Aesthetics
- Modern Critical Theory
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Nazar, H. (2025). 'The Highest Epicurism': Mary Astell's Feminist Ethics and Late Seventeenth-Century Hedonistic thought. The Journal of the American Philosophical Association. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philoso…
Nazar, H. (2021). Locke and Rousseau on Educating for Freedom. In J. Gordon-Roth, & S. Weinberg (Eds.), The Lockean Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds). Routledge.
Nazar, H. (2018). "The Eyes of Others": Rousseau and Adam Smith on Judgment and Autonomy. In V. Soni, & T. Pfau (Eds.), Judgment and Action: Fragments Towards a History (pp. 113-142). Northwestern University Press.
Nazar, H. (2017). Locke, Education, and "Disciplinary Liberalism". Review of Politics, 79(2), 215-238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516001042
Nazar, H. (2012). Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility. Fordham University Press.
Recent Publications
Nazar, H. (2025). 'The Highest Epicurism': Mary Astell's Feminist Ethics and Late Seventeenth-Century Hedonistic thought. The Journal of the American Philosophical Association. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philoso…
Nazar, H. (2021). Locke and Rousseau on Educating for Freedom. In J. Gordon-Roth, & S. Weinberg (Eds.), The Lockean Mind (Routledge Philosophical Minds). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315099675-52
Nazar, H. (2018). Review: J. Baltes's The Empire of Habit: John Locke, Discipline, and the Origins of Liberalism. Review of Politics, 80(1), 167-170. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467051700081X
Nazar, H. (2018). "The Eyes of Others": Rousseau and Adam Smith on Judgment and Autonomy. In V. Soni, & T. Pfau (Eds.), Judgment and Action: Fragments Towards a History (pp. 113-142). Northwestern University Press.
Nazar, H. (2017). Locke, Education, and "Disciplinary Liberalism". Review of Politics, 79(2), 215-238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516001042