The examples and perspective in this article may not include all significant viewpoints. Please improve the article or discuss the issue. (January 2024) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Neema Parvini is a British 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]} John Sparrow from The Mallard points out the claims by Hope not Hate are made without any evidence and that Parvini has 14 years of mainstream publications with only two instances of race mentioned, neither of which would constitute "scientific racism". Sparrow goes further on: "In short, this is but one example of many poorly sourced, libellous, and defamatory claims published by Hope Not Hate that are entirely spurious and thoroughly illegitimate". ^[12]

Publications

• Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012). ^[13]
• Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2012). ^[14]
• Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow Through Character (New York and London: Palgrave, 2015). ^[15]
• Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (New York and London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017). ^{[16] [17]}
• Shakespeare's Moral Compass: Ethical Thinking in his Plays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). ^{[18] [19]}
• The Defenders of Liberty: Human nature, Individualism, and Property Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ^[20]
• The Populist Delusion (Perth: Imperium Press, April 2022). ^[9]
• The Prophets of Doom (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2023). ^[21]

References