Research Interests
Enlightenment Moral and Political Thought (early liberalism, early feminism, the Scottish Enlightenment); Philosophy of Education; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Women's Writing; Feminist Philosophy and Critical Theory; Eighteenth-Century British Literature; 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
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. (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. (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