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Hina Nazar

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Contact Information

English Building 347

Associate Professor

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

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 Politics79(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 Politics80(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 Politics79(2), 215-238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516001042