Neema Parvini is a British-Iranian academic, currently a senior fellow at the Centre of Heterodox Studies at the University of Buckingham . ^[1] He has worked at Richmond, The American International University in London , ^[2] Brunel University , ^[3] Royal Holloway, and the University of Surrey .

His books on Shakespeare mainly discuss the influence of the New historicism , and cognitive approaches to Shakespeare studies. He has written for the website Quillette , ^[4] as well as the Ludwig von Mises Institute , ^[5] and has spoken at the think tank Traditional Britain . ^[6] Parvini is a member of the Heterodox Academy and the Evolution Institute , and attended that Battle of Ideas event run by the Institute of Art and Ideas . ^[7] He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. ^[8]

Parvini discusses political theories on the rule of elites on his YouTube channel, "Academic Agent". ^[9]

In Bournbrook Magazine , Alexander Adams describes Parvini's book The Populist Delusion as "an informative, succinctly-written and accessible handbook for those who wish to understand the core principles of elite theory discussed by reactionaries and the dissident right". ^[9]

In 2024 the advocacy group Hope not Hate described his views as "extreme" and aligned with the "scientific racist community". ^{[10] [11]}

Publications [ edit ]

• Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012). ^[12]
• Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2012). ^[13]
• Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character (New York and London: Palgrave, 2015). ^[14]
• Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (New York and London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017). ^{[15] [16]}
• Shakespeare's Moral Compass: Ethical Thinking in his Plays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). ^{[17] [18]}
• The Defenders of Liberty: Human nature, Individualism, and Property Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ^[19]
• The Populist Delusion (Perth: Imperium Press, April 2022). ^[9]
• The Prophets of Doom (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2023). ^[20]

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