Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois


Hina Nazar

Assistant Professor of English

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Education

Ph.D. (English Literature), Johns Hopkins University, 2004; M.Phil. (Economics and Politics), University of Cambridge, 1992

Teaching Interests

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature; history of the novel; Enlightenment thought; critical theory

Research Interests

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; history and theory of the novel; the Scottish Enlightenment; moral philosophy; political theory; critical theory

Publications

Books

  • Reconstructing Sentimentalism: British Fiction, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Claims of the Judge. 2010.

Journal Articles

  • Nazar, Hina. "The Imagination Goes Visiting: Jane Austen, Judgment, and the Social." Nineteenth-Century Literature 59.2 (2004): 145-78.
  • Nazar, Hina. "Philosophy in the Bedroom: Middlemarch and the Scandal of Sympathy." The Yale Journal of Criticism 15.2 (2002): 293-314.

Reviews

  • Rev. of Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the AestheticModern Philology 103.4 (2006): 571-75.