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Curriculum Vitae for Professor Matthew Feldman

EDUCATION

Oct. 2000-May 2004 Oxford Brookes University – PhD. in Literary History

(Pass with typographical corrections)

Sep. 1999-Sep. 2000 Oxford Brookes University – Masters

MA in the History of Fascism (Distinction)

Jan. 1998-Jun. 1999 Oxford Brookes University – BA (Hons.)

Modern History with English (Distinction)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Dec. 2017 – present Director, Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right

Jun. 2014-Dec. 2017 Professor in the Modern History of Ideas

Teesside University

Jul. 2012-Jun. 2014 Reader in Contemporary History

Teesside University

Sep. 2008-Jun. 2012 Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History

University of Northampton

Sep. 2004-Aug. 2008 Part-time Lecturer in Twentieth Century History

University of Northampton

Sep. 2000-Dec. 2007 Hourly-Paid Lecturer in Modern History

Oxford Brookes University

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

Director, Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (directing 60 Senior and ECR Fellows)

Leading analyst and commentator on fascism, far-right extremism and lone-wolf terrorism

Professorial Fellow, Norwegian Studies Centre, University of York, 2017-

Visiting Professor, The American International University at Richmond, London, 2015-

Director, Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies. Teesside, 2015-2017

University of Bergen’s ‘Modernism and Christianity’ Senior Research Fellow, 2011-14

Book reviewer for Times Higher Education, 2011-present

Editor, Wiley-Blackwell’s online journal Compass: Modern Ideologies and Faith, 2008-

Editor, Bloomsbury’s Modernist Archives and Historicizing Modernism series, 2011-

Advisory board: A Modern History of Politics & Violence (Bloomsbury); Explorations of

the Far-Right (Ibidem); Far-Right and Far-Left Groups in US, Europe & Australia (Gale)

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PRINT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Ezra Pound’s Axis Radio Scripts, 1940-45 (with Erik Tonning, David Addyman and

Archie Henderson), for 2021/22, transcribed and intended for Brill

Politics, Intellectuals and Faith: Essays by Matthew Feldman (ed. Natasha Neary)

(Ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2019), contracted

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Philosophy Notes’: A Critical Edition (with David Addyman and

Steven Matthews, Oxford University Press, 2019), contracted

Falsifying Beckett: Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Becket Studies (Ibidem-

Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2015)

Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945 (Palgrave, 2013)

Beckett’s Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Interwar Notes’ (Continuum,

2006), revised and reissued in paperback, 2008

Special Issues of journals and edited collections

Fascism’s New Man 1919-1945 (edited with Jorge Dagnino and Paul Stocker,

Bloomsbury, 2017)

Beckett and BBC Radio: An Empirical Reassessment, eds. Matthew Feldman, Erik

Tonning and David Addyman (Palgrave, 2017)

‘Fascist Ideologues Past and Present’ Special Issue, Patterns of Prejudice, 50/4-5 (edited

with John Pollard, 2016)

Modernism, Christianity and the Apocalypse, eds. Erik Tonning and Matthew Feldman,

with David Addyman (Brill, 2014)

Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, 1922-1962, eds. Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning,

with Henry Mead (Bloomsbury, 2014)

Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945, eds. Matthew Feldman and Paul

Jackson (Ibidem-Verlag, 2014)

‘Populist Racism and Lone-Wolf Terrorism in Democratic States’, eds. Matthew Feldman

and Paul Jackson, Democracy & Security, Special Issue, 8/3 (2013)

Beckett/Philosophy, eds. Matthew Feldman and Karim Mamdani (Sophia University

Press, 2012) [first appearing as Special Issue of Sofia Philosophical Review 5/1 (2011)]

Beckett and Death, eds. Steve Barfield, Matthew Feldman and Philip Tew (Continuum,

2009; revised and reissued in paperback, 2011)

The International Reception of Samuel Beckett, eds. Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman

(Continuum, 2009; revised and reissued in paperback, 2011)

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Beckett and Phenomenology, eds. Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman (Continuum,

2009; revised and reissued in paperback, 2011)

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, eds. Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, Matthijs

Engelberts and Dirk van Hulle, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’Hui, 22 (2010)

A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin, ed. Matthew Feldman (Palgrave, 2008)

‘Clerical Fascism’ in Interwar Europe, eds. Matthew Feldman and Marius Turda, with

Tudor Georgescu (Routledge, 2008) [first appearing as Special Issue of Totalitarian

Movements and Political Religions 8/2 (2007)]

Beckett’s Literary Legacies, eds. Matthew Feldman and Mark Nixon (Cambridge Scholars

Press, 2007)

Fascism: Critical Concepts, 5 Volumes, eds. Roger Griffin with Matthew Feldman

(Routledge, 2004)

Refereed articles and book chapters

‘On the threat of radical right “mainstreaming” in Europe and the US’, Europe at the

Crossroads: Confronting populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges, eds. Pieter

Bevelander & Ruth Wodak (Nordic Academic Press), forthcoming

(with Rob May), ‘Understanding the Alt-Right: From online “lulz” to offline violence’,

Back to Front Truths, eds. Nick Thurston and Maik Feiltiz (Transcript)

(with Paul Stocker) ‘Far-right Islamophobia: From Ideology to “Mainstreamed” Hate

Crimes’, Key Readings in Islamophobia, eds. Imran Awan and Irene Zempi (Oxford

University Press, 2018), forthcoming

‘Samuel Beckett’s nominalist politics’, Samuel Beckett and Politics, ed. Will Davies

(completed)

‘The History of British Fascism’, Far-Right and Far-Left Groups in US, Europe &

Australia, Online collection (Gale, 2018)

‘Lone wolf terrorism and radicalising “networks of support”, Extremism and Terrorist

Radicalisation, eds. Andreas Onnerfors and Kristian Steiner (Palgrave, 2018)

‘Far right, alt-right, near-right: mainstreaming extremes’, Safe and Free: Democratic

Security and Human Rights: Democratic Security Debates at the Council of Europe, 2015-

2017 (Council of Europe, 2018)

(with Mark Littler) ‘Social Media and the Cordon Sanitaire: Populist politics, the online

space, and a relationship that just isn’t there’, Language and Politics special issue of the

Journal of Language and Politics, eds. Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyanowski (2017)

‘Beckett’s “non-canonical” radio productions with the BBC, 1957-1989’, Beckett and

BBC Radio: An Empirical Reassessment (Palgrave, 2017)

(with John Pollard) ‘The Ideologues and Ideologies of the radical right: an introduction’,

Patterns of Prejudice 50/4-5 (2016)

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‘Hate-baiting: The radical right and “fifth column discourse” in European and American

democracies today’, The Journal of Political Criminology 1/1 (2015; open access journal)

‘Afterword’, Art in Battle Catalogue with Supporting Essays (KODE, Bergen, 2015)

(with Andrea Rinaldi) ‘…in for a penny: Ezra Pound and the faces of contemporary

fascism’, Sanglap 1/2 (2015; open access journal)

‘Ezra Pound’s political faith from first to second generation; or, “It is 1956 Fascism.”’

Modernism, Christianity and the Apocalypse (Brill, 2014)

‘Beckett and BBC Radio Redux’, On in their company: essays on Beckett, with tributes

and sketches; presented to Jim Knowlson on his 80th birthday, eds. Mark Nixon and John

Pilling (Reading UP, 2014)

(with Andrea Rinaldi) ‘Ezra Pound’s fascist legacy to fascism and neo-Nazism’, eds. Paul

Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov, The Postwar Anglo-American far right (Palgrave, 2014)

‘…showing a corner of the calamity’: The Shoah in mainstream cinema, c.1993 – 2008 in

Ethics, Politics and Literature, eds. Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva, Margret Champion

Gunnarsdottir and Eric Dean Rasmussen (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014)

‘Beckett’s Trilogy on the Third Programme’, in “Revisiting the Trilogy”, Samuel Beckett

Today/Aujourd’hui 26 (2014)

‘Preface’, to Belzec Death Camp by Chris Webb (Ibidem Verlag / Columbia University

Press, 2014)

‘Ezra Pound’s wartime broadcasts: An archival reappraisal’, in Broadcasting in the

Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2014)

‘Beckett and Philosophy’, in The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Becket and the Arts,

ed. S.E. Gontarski (EUP, 2014)

(with Anna Castriota) ‘“Fascism for the Third Millennium”: An overview of language and

ideology in Italy’s CasaPound movement’, in Doublespeak (Ibidem-Verlag, 2014)

‘Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism’, in ‘Populist Racism and Lone-Wolf Terrorism in

Democratic States’, Democracy & Security, Special Issue 8/3 (2013)

‘Philosophy’, in Beckett in Context, ed. Anthony Uhlmann (Cambridge UP, 2013)

‘Breivik’s Three Acts of Terrorism’, in Society and Space 30/2 (2012)

‘The “Pound Case” in Historical Perspective: An Archival Overview’, in Journal of

Modern Literature 35/2 (2012)

(with David Addyman) ‘Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and the interwar

“Philosophy Notes”’, Modernism/Modernity 18/3-4 (2011)

‘Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and nominalist philosophy’, in Beckett/Philosophy

Special Issue, Sofia Philosophical Review 5/1 (2011)

(with Paul Jackson) ‘Britain’s Extreme Right-wing and the New Media’, in Far-right.com,

eds. Paul Jackson and Gerry Gable (RNM Group Publications, 2011)

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‘Hate Globally, Act Locally: A Case Study of Universal Nazism online’, in Jenseits der

Epoche. Aktuelle Gefahren des Faschismus in Europa, eds. Christian Dietrich and

Michael Schüssler (Unrast, 2011)

‘Stalinism, Modernism, and Political Religion: The Case of the USSR in Construction’, in

Religion Compass 6/11 (2011)

‘Make It Crude: Ezra Pound’s Antisemitic Propaganda for the PNF and BUF’, in

Holocaust Studies, 15/1-2 (2010) [reprinted in Fascism and the Jews: Britain and Italy,

eds. Daniel Tilles and Salvatore Garau (Vallentine Mitchell, 2011)]

‘“I am not a philosopher.” Beckett and Philosophy: A Methodological and Thematic

Introduction’, in Sofia Philosophical Review 3/2 (2010) [reprinted in Beckett/Philosophy]

‘Beckett and Philosophy, 1928-1938: A Falsifiable Reappraisal’, in SBT/A 22 (2010)

‘“Strange exalted death!” Disinterring Beckett and Death’, in Beckett and Death,

(Continuum, 2009)

‘In defence of empirical knowledge: Rejoinder to ‘A critique of “Excavatory Reason”’’,

SBT/A 20 (2009)

‘A “suitable engine of destruction”? Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics’, in

Beckett and Ethics, ed. Russell Smith (Continuum, 2009)

‘“Agnostic Quietism” and Samuel Beckett’s Early Development’, in History, Memory,

Archive, eds. Sean Kennedy and Katherine Weiss (Palgrave, 2009)

(with Mark Nixon) ‘“Getting known” – Samuel Beckett’s International Reception’, in The

International Reception of Samuel Beckett (Continuum, 2009)

‘“But what was this pursuit of meaning, in this indifference to meaning?”: Beckett,

Husserl, Sartre and “Meaning Creation”’, in Beckett and Phenomenology (Continuum,

2009)

‘Introduction’ and ‘Concluding Interview’, in A Fascist Century (Palgrave, 2008)

‘After “The End” of Samuel Beckett: Influence, Legacies, and “Legacees’”, in Beckett’s

Literary Legacies (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)

‘Popper and Beckett: or, On Falsifiability, ‘What stink of Artifice’, in SBT/A 16 (2006)

‘Beckett’s Poss and the Dog’s Dinner: An empirical survey of 1930s Philosophy and

Psychology Notes’, in Journal of Beckett Studies, 13/2 (2005)

‘Between Geist and Zeitgeist: Martin Heidegger as ideologue of metapolitical fascism’, in

Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (hereafter TMPR), 6/2 (2005)

‘“I Inquired into Myself”: Beckett, Interpretation. Phenomenology?’, in SBT/A 12 (2003)

‘“Choose Definitively Between Hell and Reason”’, in Third Text, 61 (2003)

- Entries totalling c.10,000 words for The Historical Encyclopaedia of World Fascism, 2

Vols. (ABC-CLIO, 2006)

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Articles in Translation

'Non cerchiamo imperi: gli Stati Uniti tra il liberalismo e l'imperialismo’ [In Italian],

Nazioni and Regioni 8, trans. Andrea Rinaldi (2018), forthcoming

‘«Un engin de destruction adéquat»? Samuel Beckett et l”ethique d’Arnold Geuincx [In

French], in Samuel Beckett et Arnold Geulincx, trans. Nicholas Doutey (Les Solitaires

Intemptestifs, Paris: 2012)

‘Zaključak: Genocid između političke religije i religijske politike’ [In Serbo-Croatian], in

Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska: 1941. – 1945., ed. and trans. Sabrina Ramet (Zagreb: Alinea,

2009)

Book reviews

For Times Higher Education, 2011-

- Healing from Hate; Making Sense of the Alt-Right; It Can’t Happen Here; Fear of

Muslims?; The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism; Far-Right Politics in Europe; The Edge of

Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire The Letters of Samuel Beckett,

vol. 4; Imagining Surveillance; Violent Extremism Online; Combating Cult Mind Control;

The Dynamics of A Terrorist Targeting Process: Anders B. Breivik and the 22 July Attacks

in Norway; Destructive and Terrorist Cults; A New Kind of Slavery; Now Then; Ezra

Pound: Poet, vol. 2; War Crimes, Genocide and Justice; The United States of Paranoia: A

Conspiracy Theory; Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural

Politics of Fascism, 1941-1945; A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for

Meaning; Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity; The Holocaust,

Fascism and Memory; Understanding Lone Wolf Terrorism; Unlikely Collaboration:

Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma; The Letters of Samuel Beckett, vol.

2; British Social Realism and the Arts since 1940; Totalitarian Art; The Collected Letters

of Samuel Beckett, vol. 2; The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty

Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany; The American West and the

Nazi East; Samuel Beckett and the Modern Novel; Fascist Voices; Interculturalism; Lone

Wolf Terrorism; and British Writers and MI-5 Surveillance

- ‘Debating Debates in Holocaust Studies’, c.8,000-word review article for Holocaust

Studies 6/3 (2011)

- Reviews in academic journals: Fascist Directive (European History Quarterly, 2018),

forthcoming; The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (Extremism & Democracy, 2014);

Terrorist’s Creed (Modernism/Modernity, 2013); The Study of Religion under the Impact

of Fascism (European History Quarterly, 2011); Atheist Delusions (The Journal of

Implicit Religion, 2010); Global Fissures/Postcolonial Fusions (Journal of Postcolonial

Writing, 2008); Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics (The Beckett Circle, 2007); Camus at Combat:

Writing 1944-1947 (TMPR, 2006); The Idea of National Superiority in Europe, 1880-1918

(TMPR, 2005); Götz and Meyer (TMPR, 2005); Hitler’s Voice: The Völkischer

Beobachter, II vols. (TMPR, 2004); Sources of the Holocaust (Archives, 2004)

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, MEDIA APPEARANCES AND ONLINE TEXTS

Public engagement

‘Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences’, Home Affairs Select Committee testimony

and recommendations, Oct. 2018

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(with William Allchorn) ‘Xenophobia, Radicalism and Hate Crime in post-Brexit Britain’,

European Centre for Democracy Development, UK Country Report, Oct. 2018,

forthcoming

(with William Allchorn) ‘A working definition of anti-Muslim prejudice’, Faith Matters,

2018, forthcoming

(with Paul Stocker), ‘The far-right in post-Brexit Britain’, Hedayayh/SETA countering

violent extremism report, Far-Right Extremism in Europe, Dec. 2017

‘On countering hate incidents, anti-Muslim attacks and “mainstreamed” intolerance’,

Public Lecture, Teesside University, Oct. 2017

‘The far right in Britain’s Northeast: An overview’, A town of immigrants or an anti-

immigrant town? Public Event, mima, Middlesbrough, Oct. 2017

‘Far-Right Extremism Today’, keynote lecture, North Yorkshire Black Police Association

Annual General Meeting, Sept. 2017

(with Nick Thurston), ‘The Hate Library: An International Exhibition’, Foksal Gallery,

Warsaw, Jul.-Aug. 2017 (forthcoming travel to Germany and/or Britain)

Far-right awareness training, Show Racism the Red Card CPD workshop, Newcastle, Jul.

2017

Far-right anti-radicalisation workshop, featured speaker, Media Cultured, in partnership

with Cleveland Police HQ, Middlesbrough Jul. 2017

‘It Can’t Happen Here? On the far-right challenge in Europe and the US today’, keynote

lecture, Searchlight Archives symposium, University of Northampton, Jun. 2017

‘Alt-right. Far-right. “Near-right”?: On mainstreaming illiberal democracy’, “Debates on

Democratic Security”, televised lecture, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, Apr. 2017

‘Britain’s Far-Right, Holocaust Denial and Web of Hate’, Hammersmith and Fulham

Council, WRAP (Prevent), daylong seminar speaker, Mar. 2017

Panelist for ‘Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences’, Home Affairs Select Committee,

House of Commons, transcribed testimony, Jan. 2017

Far right-extremism WRAP workshop, Cleveland Silver Star Prevent group, Riverside

Stadium, Middlesbrough, Nov. 2016

‘Mainstreaming Hate Speech’, ticketed roundtable discussion, Bradford Literature

Festival, University of Bradford, May 2016

‘Extremist Radicalisation in Contemporary Britain’, Public dialogue, Distinguished Public

Lecture Series, Bournemouth University, May 2016

Invited attendee, ‘Security, Counter-terrorism and the counter-narrative’, Home Affairs

Select Committee conference, University of Cambridge, Apr. 2016

‘On Holocaust denial, past and present’, Holocaust Memorial Day, keynote lecture,

Northampton Synagogue, Feb. 2016

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Pilot, Drivers of Extremism, with MediaCultured, Dec. 2015

‘Self-activating terrorism, past and present’, Special Branch domestic extremism briefing,

Harrogate, Oct. 2015

(with Mark Littler), ‘‘Tell MAMA Reporting 2014/15: Annual Monitoring, Cumulative

Extremism, and Policy Implications’, Jun. 2015

Inquest Statement on the LaRouche movement and the 2003 death of Jeremiah Duggan,

North London Coroner’s Court, London, May 2015

Keynote lecture, ‘Holocaust Denial: Practice and Practitioners’, Holocaust Memorial Day

Trust Youth Champions’ Awards, Manchester, Apr. 2015

‘Europe and Its Discontents - far right and xenophobia in Western Europe’, Public Panel

Discussion, Warsaw University Library, Warsaw, Poland, Mar. 2015

Parliamentary meeting on youth and radicalism, hosted by the Rt. Hon. Rushinara Ali and

GlobalNet21, Portculis House, London, Jan. 2015

(with Mark Littler), ‘Tell MAMA Reporting 2013/14: Anti-Muslim Overview, Analysis

and “Cumulative Extremism”’, commissioned report for Tell Mama project, Jul. 2014

Teesside University lead, pilot for Prevent ‘WRAP’ training on the contemporary far-

right, Home Office, London, May 2014

Advisor to Security Minister (and Shadow Minister) on the British far-right and anti-

Muslim extremism, Houses of Parliament, London, January-February 2014

‘Prevent and the third “i”: How can universities get the most out of the agenda?’, Safe

Campus Communities: Universities, Safeguarding and Well-being: Confronting

Radicalisation conference, Cardiff, Wales, Nov. 2013

Department of Communities and Local Government Briefing on the monitoring anti-

Muslim attacks, London, Oct. 2013

6 Security-Cleared Prevent presentations on the far-right and extreme right wing (with

Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside Police), Sep. 2013

All-Party Parliamentary Working Group on Islamophobia, lead speaker testimony, House

of Parliament, Sep. 2013

(with Nigel Copsey, Janet Dack and Mark Littler), “Anti-Muslim Hate Crime and the Far-

right”, commissioned report for Tell Mama project, Jul. 2013

(with Mansoor Abassi), “Prevent Training Course”, Daylong academic-practitioner event

pilot; sessions on “Universities and Prevent” and “The Far-Right and Prevent”, Jun. 2013

‘The Prevent agenda: where next?’, Universities UK conference on Prevent, May 2013

Chair of panel on ‘counter-jihad’, RUSI/STFC funding workshop, London, Apr. 2013

‘Multiculturalism versus Interculturalism’ debate, House of Lords, Oct. 2012

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‘From Radical-Right Islamophobia to ‘Cumulative Extremism’, standalone consultancy

report for Faith Matters, Oct. 2012, online at: www.faith-matters.org/images/pdf/

islamophobia.pdf

Independent Review of The English Defense League for Faith Matters, Aug. 2012

‘The Revised PREVENT Strategy and its Implications’, Lecture at “Analysing Far-Right

Movements – Current Trends” symposium, Bradford, Feb. 2012

Briefing on the English Defence League for RICU Intelligence & Analysis (with Nigel

Copsey and Paul Jackson), Home Office, Jan. 2012

Evidence submitted to Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry, ‘How serious is the threat

from the far right?’, University of Leicester Session, Dec. 2011

The Frontline Club, Round-table discussion, ‘Understanding Extremism: What are the

dangers?’, London, Sept. 2011, online at: www.frontlineclub.com/events/2011/09/

understanding-extremism-what-are-the-real-dangers.html

(with Paul Jackson), commissioned report on the English Defence League for the

Radicalism and New Media, Sep. 2011

Expert’s Report on the English Defence League for NDET/SO-15, Jun. 2010

Courtroom testimony as CPS expert witness in far-right trials: R v. Lewington (Old Bailey,

2009), R v. Davison (Newcastle, 2010) and R v. Heaton and Hannington (Liverpool, 2010)

Crown Prosecution Service reports Feb. 2010, 16,000 words; Nov. 2009, 11,000 words;

and Apr. 2009, 4,000 words

Consultant on Jeremiah Duggan case for More4 News and Channel 4 Documentary “A

Mother’s Search For Justice”, Apr. 2010

Holocaust Memorial Day Keynote Lecture, “Holocaust Denial and its Believers”,

Northampton Synagogue, Feb. 2010

All Parliamentary Sub-Committee On Anti-Semitism report, Houses of Parliament,

London, Dec. 2009

Advisor to Rt. Hon. Jack Straw on BNP and Question Time, Ministry of Justice, London,

Oct. 2009

Selected newspaper, radio and television appearances (with some selected links)

- Over 500 media interviews for outlets worldwide

- A monitory news value (relative to advertising purchasing) of over £3.5m in 3.5 years.

- Over 100 unique sources, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street

Journal, BBC News (radio, live TV and online x100+), LBC Radio, Al-Jazeera, ITV,

Mic.com, Gulf News, Vox, The Guardian, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, The Daily

Mail, MSN TV, International Business Times, Middle East Monitor, Pakistan Today, The

Journal of Turkish Weekly, The Telegraph, Newsweek, Haaretz, Judische Allgemeine,

Gazeta Wyborcza, Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Sun, The Sunday Times,

The Observer, The Muslim Weekly, The University Herald, Asian Times, Eastern Eye,

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Vice Magazine, To Bhma [Greek], CapitalFM; Evening Gazette, Media Newswire, BBC

History Magazine, Globo News, The New Statesman, Citizens’ Eye, FM4 Austria, MSN

UK, The Scotsman, Huffington Post, The National Student, Radio New Zealand, RTE

Ireland, Voice of America International, Searchlight, Reuters, Channel 4 News, CNN

International; TV Asahi (Japan); ITV News, Discovery Channel, Sky News, Radio Cape

Town, Associated Press; Kyodo News Agency, Mandag Morgen, Dabgladet, Finnnark

Dagblad, Sydney Morning Herald, The Jewish Chronicle, Canal+, Euronews and The

Australian

Online texts and podcasts

‘Why don’t lone-wolf terrorists hunt in packs?’, The Question, Jan. 2017, online at:

https://thequestion.com/questions/208545/why-don-t-lone-wolf-terrorists-hunt-in-packs

‘How do you explain terrorism to kids?’, The Question, Jan. 2017, online at:

https://thequestion.com/questions/196205/how-do-you-explain-terrorism-to-kids

(with Leonard Weinberg) ‘Heil the Trump victory’, Fair Observer, Dec. 2016, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/donald-trump-election-headlines-latest-

news-01162/

‘Islam and the Far-Right’: Is Bigotry Back?’, Fair Observer, Nov. 2016, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/islam-far-right-racism-terrorism-news-headlines-

90662/

‘Radicalization in a historical context’, Fair Observer, Jul. 2016, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/radicalization-historical-context-22921/

(with Fabian Sieber), ‘The NSU and the neo-Nazi “network of support” in 21st century

Germany, Searchlight blog, Jan. 2016, online at:

www.searchlightmagazine.com/blogs/searchlight-blog/the-nsu-network-and-neo-nazi-

“network-of-support”-in-21st-century-germany

‘I received the first media request while the Bataclan siege was still happening. I

declined.’, blog for Times Higher Education, Nov. 2015, online at:

www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/i-received-first-media-request-while-bataclan-siege-

was-still-happening-i-declined#comment-form

‘Doublespeak: Radical Right Rhetoric Today’, Fair Observer, Aug. 2015, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/doublespeak-radical-right-rhetoric-today-

78554/

‘Practice and Practitioners of Holocaust Denial’, Fair Observer, May 2015, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/practice-practitioners-holocaust-denial-

92241/

‘How Should Europeans Respond to the Paris Attacks? Fair Observer, Jan. 2015, online

at: www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/how-should-europeans-respond-to-the-paris-

attacks-76345/

‘Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Herald of Contemporary Terrorism?’, Fair Observer,

Apr. 2014, online at: www.fairobserver.com/article/joseph-conrad-secret-agent-herald-

contemporary-terrorism-99843

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The Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton, Skype interview, Searchlight

50 Years Anniversary Conference, Northampton, Apr. 2014

‘Remembering Belzec’, Holocaust Memorial Day editorial, Fair Observer, Jan. 2014,

online at: www.fairobserver.com/article/remembering-belzec

‘Joseph Conrad: “Terrorologist?”’, Planned Violence Symposium, King’s College,

London, Jan. 2014, online at: http://plannedviolence.org/matt-feldman-joseph-conrad-

terrorologist/

‘Albert Camus: A Centenary Commemoration’, Fair Observer, Nov. 2013, online at:

www.fairobserver.com/article/albert-camus-centenary-commemoration

‘Ezra Pound: Modernist Politics and Fascist Propaganda’, Fair Observer, Nov. 2013, at:

www.fairobserver.com/article/ezra-pound-modernist-politics-fascistp-propaganda

‘Centre-right columnists are legitimising the EDL’, politics.co.uk; and The Huffington

Post, Jun. 2013, online at: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-matthew-feldman/edl-

columnists-are-legitimising_b_3472599.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics#postComment

‘Tit-for-tat extremism only fuels more hatred and violence’, The Conversation, May 2013,

online at: http://theconversation.com/tit-for-tat-extremism-only-fuels-more-hatred-and-

violence-14613

(with Leonard Weinberg) ‘Gun control in the US: The “Cohen Act”?’, Fair Observer,

Feb. 2013, online at: www.fairobserver.com/article/gun-control-us-cohen-act

(with Leonard Weinberg) ‘The Obama Victory and the near hysteria of the far-right’,

Truthout, Nov. 2012, online at: www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/12844-the-obama-

victory-and-the-american-far-right

‘The Radical Right, Anti-Muslim Politics and ‘Cumulative Extremism’, comment text for

Fair Observer, Oct. 2012, online at: www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/radical-right-

anti-muslim-politics-and-cumulative-extremism/

‘Viewpoint: Killer Breivik’s links with far-right’, comment text for BBC World News

website, Aug. 2012, online at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19366000

‘Concluding Roundtable discussion’, Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse, University

of Bergen / Solstrand, Jul. 2012, online at:

www.backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/07/modernism-christianity-and-apocalypse/

‘Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism’, “Populist Racism in Britain and Europe since 1945”

international conference, Sept. 2011, online at:

www.backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/09/matthew-feldman-comparative-lone-wolf-

terrorism/

‘Right Wing Extremism in Europe and Norway attacks’, Radicalism and New Media

Group/Matisak’s Blog, online at: www.matisak.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/right-wing-

extremism-in-europe-and-norway-attacks/

‘Slaughter was the killer’s appetiser. It is the trial that is his main course’, The

Independent, Jul. 2011, online at: www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/dr-

matthew-feldman-slaughter-was-killers-appetiser-it-is-the-trial-that-is-his-main-course-

2325910.html

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‘Norway Killings Analysis: Far right has grown in internet age’, The Sunday Mirror, Jul.

2011, online at: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/norway-killings-analysis-far-right-

143656

Research Report on ‘broadband terrorism’, Extremism and Democracy, Apr. 2011, online

at: www.extremism-and-democracy.com/ead/newsletters/Current%20newsletter/2011-12-

01-eExtreme-Newsletter.pdf

Podcasted presentation, ‘Universal Nazism in Britain, The Case of the Aryan Strike

Force’, “Fascist Radicalism and the New Media” symposium, Sep. 2010, online at:

www.backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/09/fascist-radicalism-and-the-new-media-panel-

2/#matthewfeldman

‘Holocaust Denial: An Unavoidable Introduction?’, Holocaust Education and Research

Team, Jun. 2010, online at:

www.holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/holocaustdenial.html

‘7 years of (unconvincing) lies in 39 minutes’, Truthout, Apr. 2010, online at: http://truth-

out.org/archive/component/k2/item/89097:seven-years-of-unconvincing-lies-in-39-

minutes-a-primer

‘Beckett, Sartre and Phenomenology’, Limit(e) Beckett, Launch Issue, Feb. 2010, online

at: http://www.limitebeckett.paris-sorbonne.fr/zero/feldman.html

Review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism for History News Network, Jan. 2010, online

at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/122247, and

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/122744

‘Pinstriped Fascism’, History & Policy, Nov. 2009, online at: http://archive-

org.com/page/875274/2012-12-

07/http://www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion/opinion_17.html

Podcasted presentation, ‘Selling Sacralised Socialism: The USSR in Construction and

modern(ist) propagations of faith under Stalin’, “Sacred Modernities: Rethinking

Modernity in a Post Secular Age”, Sept. 2009, online at:

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/09/sacred-modernities-rethinking-modernity-in-a-

post-secular-age/

‘Broadband Terrorism: A new face of fascism’, History & Policy, Sept. 2009, online at:

www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articles/articles/broadband-terrorism-a-new-face-of-

fascism

Podcasted interview with Beckett actress Rosemary Pountney for The Samuel Beckett

Endpage, Aug. 2009, online at: www.uantwerpen.be/en/rg/the-samuel-beckett-

endpage/performances/interview/

Podcasted interview with Ana Soage, ‘The Pax Islamica: Totalitarianism, Islamism and

“Islamo-fascism”’, Oct. 2008, online at: http://religion-compass.com/2008/10/28/podcast-

the-pax-islamica-totalitarianism-islamism-and-islamo-fascism/

‘Genocide between Religious Politics and Political Religion’, 2007, online at:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/papers/ftmp_ndh_conclusion.pdf

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‘Returning to Beckett returning to the Presocratics, or, “All their balls about being and

existing”’, Genetic Joyce Studies, Issue 6, 2006, online at:

www.antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/GJS6/GJS6Feldman.htm

‘Dead Man Walking’, 2006 Centenary Piece for The Samuel Beckett Endpage

Review of Emilio Gentile’s Politics as Religion (2006), online at:

www.tufts.edu/~dart01/extremismanddemocracy/newsletter/Book8_1.htm

Articles on Lyndon LaRouche and Anti-Semitism, online at:

www.holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/larouche.html;

www.holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/duggan2.html; and

www.holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/larouche2.html

CONSULTANCY, BIDS AND EXTERNAL INCOME GENERATION (£10,000+)

(via RUSI), Horizon2020 ‘Trillion Project’, testing online crime reporting platform, 2016-

3 Tell MAMA consultancy reports on anti-Muslim attacks in Britain, 2013-2015

Business Innovation Fund Award, Teesside University, 2013

University of Bergen, Norway, Senior Research Fellow, 2011-14

Berendel Foundation, University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellowship, 2011-2012

Steel Foundation Charitable Grant, Northampton, 2011

New Scotland Yard bursary toward report on the English Defence League, 2011

HEFCE Promising Research Fellow, University of Northampton, 2005-6

University Scholarship for PhD study, Oxford Brookes University, 2000-2004

CONSULTANCY, BIDS AND EXTERNAL INCOME GENERATION (£300+)

Prevent and the far-right workshop, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, London, Mar.

2017

Prevent and the far-right, counter-narrative workshop, Durham Constabulary, Dec. 2016

HERA funding for ‘Uses of the Past’ matchmaking event, Tallinn, Estonia, Jan. 2015

Graduate Research School Scholarship, Australia and New Zealand, Jan. 2014

Faith Matters consultancy on anti-Muslim prejudice training modules, Jan. 2014

University Research Fund Grant, Oct. 2012 and Oct. 2013

British Association of American Studies Founders’ Research Travel Award, 2011

BA Postdoctoral Fellowship (mentor and sponsor), Dr Anton Shekhovstov, 2010-11

School of Social Sciences REF fund, University of Northampton, Jun. 2009

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British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, South Korea, Jun. 2007

Conference/seminar/lecture funding received from:

University of Otago, invited speaker and roundtable convenor, “Unattended

Moments: The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic”

University of Sydney / University of New South Wales, lecture series and

Masterclass on empirical approaches to modernism

University of Oxford (Regent’s Park College, Lincoln College, Centre for the

Study of Christianity and Culture, Faculty of English)

Euromed/Totem for Council of Europe, lectures on the Holocaust in Wroclaw and

Auschwitz, Poland

IES Dublin, Lecturing on Politics and Religion in Dublin, Ireland

University of Northampton (School of Social Sciences, School of Arts, etc.) and

Northampton Borough Council, Kettering County Council; Northants

Oxford Brookes University (Dept. of History, Dept. of English Studies, the

Institute of Cultural and Historical Studies)

RICH, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

CONFERENCE AND EVENT ORGANISATION

Co-convener, ‘100 Years of Radical Right Extremism’, Richmond the American

International University in London, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Analysis of the

Radical Right, May 2019, forthcoming

Co-convenor, H2020 Beta test project workshop for the ‘Trillion’ online crime reporting

platform, York St. John’s University, Oct. 2017

Co-convener, H2020 Pilot workshop for ‘Trillion’ online crime reporting platform, York

St. John’s University, Sep. 2016

Co-convener and chair, launch of Teesside University’s report on anti-Muslim hate

incidents, Teesside University, Jul. 2015

Co-convenor, ‘Fascism’s “New Man” in Europe, 1914-1945’, Two-day Colloquium,

Centre for Fascist, Post-fascist and Anti-fascist Studies, Sep. 2014

Co-convener and chair, launch of Teesside University’s report on anti-Muslim hate

incidents, Old Shire Hall, Durham, Jul. 2014

Co-convenor, ‘Samuel Beckett and the Radio: An empirical reappraisal’, One-day

Symposium, University of Oxford, Sep. 2013

Co-convenor, ‘Fascist Ideologues: Past and Present’, International Conference, Teesside

University, Darlington, Jul. 2013 (podcasted)

Co-convenor, ‘Modernism, Christianity and the Apocalypse’, International Conference,

University of Bergen, Norway, Jul. 2012 (podcasted)

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Convenor, ‘Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, 1922-1962’, One-day Symposium,

University of Oxford, Feb. 2012

Co-organiser, ‘Populist Racism in Britain and Europe since 1945’, International

Conference, University of Northampton, Sep. 2011 (podcasted)

Co-convenor, ‘Think Global, Hate Local: England’s Far-Right in Focus’, International

Symposium, University of Northampton, Apr. 2011 (podcasted)

Co-convenor, ‘Fascist Radicalism and the New Media’, International Symposium,

University of Northampton, Sep. 2010 (podcasted)

Co-founded joint University of Northampton-University of Oxford seminar series, Samuel

Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2004-2010 (2010 year podcasted)

Co-organiser, ‘Sacred Modernities: Rethinking Modernity in a Post-Secular Age’, 17-19

September, 2009, Oxford Brookes University (podcasted)

Co-convenor, ‘Speaking with forked tongues: the rhetoric of right-wing extremism today’,

International Symposium, University of Northampton, Jun. 2009 (filmed)

Academic speaker and moderator, ‘Lyndon LaRouche: Breaking the Silence’, Wiesbaden,

Germany, Mar. 2009 (filmed)

Academic speaker and moderator, Berlin Forum on ‘The LaRouche Organisation as a

Threat to Democracy’, Oct. 2008 (filmed, available in 12 parts on www.youtube.com)

Co-convenor ‘“Birth was the death of him”: Samuel Beckett, Death, Dying and All That

Other Unfinished Business’, An International Conference in honour of Samuel Beckett’s

Centenary, University of Northampton, Dec. 2006

Co-convener, ‘“Clerical Fascism” in Interwar Europe’, International Seminar, Oxford

Brookes University, 7-9 Apr. 2006

Co-convenor, Contemporary Ideology Forum at Oxford Brookes University, 2001-2006

EDITORIAL AND RELATED ROLES

Co-Director, Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies, 2013-

Director, ‘Radicalism and New Media Research Group’, 2009-2012

Wiley-Blackwell, Journal co-editor, Compass: Political Religions, online at religion-

compass.com, 2008-present

Series Co-Editor, Modernist Archives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012-present

Series Co-Editor, Historicizing Modernism, Bloomsbury Academic, 2009-present

Editorial Board, A Modern History of Politics and Violence, Bloomsbury, 2014-present

Editorial Board, Explorations of the Far-Right since 1945, Ibidem Verlag, 2011-present

Editorial Board, Mapping the Far-right, Monograph Series, Searchlight, 2011-present

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Senior Research Fellow, Cantemir Institute, History Faculty, University of Oxford, 2012/3

Senior Research Fellow, ‘Modernism and Christianity’ Research Project, University of

Bergen, Norway, 2011-2014

Senior Fellow, Berendel Foundation, London, UK, 2011/12

Associate Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2009-10

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2007

HEFCE Promising Research Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of

Birmingham, 2005-2006

Routledge Journal Editor, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2004-2008;

Series Editor, TMPR Books 2006-2008

Expert Reader for Bloomsbury Academic; Taylor & Francis; Manchester University

Press; Palgrave MacMillan; Pluto Press; Wiley-Blackwells; Edinburgh University Press,

and various academic journals

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

PhD Supervisor Training (QAA-approved at the University of Northampton), 2010

Media Training Course at Senate House, University of London, History and Policy, 2010

Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Higher Education Teachers’ Course /

Portfolio, Oxford Brookes University, 2001

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES

REF and Impact lead, History section, Teesside University, 2016-2017

Co-director, Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies, Teesside University,

2014-

Business Development Officer, School of Design, Culture and the Arts, Teesside

University, 2013-

Research Ethics Committee, School of Design, Culture and the Arts, Teesside University,

2013-

Senior Admissions Tutor, 2007-2012, University of Northampton

History Dissertation Tutor, 2010-2012, University of Northampton

Conference day presenter and organiser for Sovereign Education; various lectures and

talks for Sixth Form and Further Education students, 2008-

Validated new Taught Masters for module “Representing Total War”, University of

Northampton, 2009; helped to validate QAA-approved History modules at the University

of Northampton, 2008.

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Organiser, Holocaust Memorial Day, University of Northampton, 2007-2011; Teesside

University, 2013-

Director, Radicalism and New Media Group, University of Northampton, 2009-2012

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have extensive experience of teaching and supervising at all levels of higher education,

including school and Sixth Form lectures, as well as undergraduate, MA and PhD. levels.

I have extensive experience of pastoral and promotional duties as well as the use of

various modes of assessment, including course work, individual presentations, group

presentations, examinations and WebCT.

I have supervised, and first/second marked, UG and PG dissertations, essays and exams.

Teesside University, Aug. 2012 – Reader/Professor in Contemporary History/Modern

History of Ideas:

Weekly taught MA in 2017, entitled A Fascist Century

Weekly taught MA in 2013, entitled British Fascism and Culture

Administered and taught modules The Rise of the Nazis (third year course); The

Holocaust (third year course); The Third Reich (second year course); The Russian

Revolution (second year course)

Team-taught modules include Europe since 1850-1918 (first year course); Europe

1917-1991 (first year course); War and Society (second year course); and third

year dissertations x 100; MA in History team-teaching

University of Northampton, Oct. 2004-Jul. 2012, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Twentieth

Century History:

Taught MA module running weekly, entitled Representing Total War in 2010/11

History dissertation leader, supervision of c.150 undergraduates (to date, 2004-):

Team-taught courses, including Conflict and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

(first year course); Research Skills; (second year course) Empires Through History

(second year course); and MA in Social and Cultural History

Designed, administered and taught (lectures and seminars) individual courses,

including The Holocaust (final year course); The Holocaust and its Histories (first

year course); Colonialism and Modernity, c. 1650 – 2000 (second year course);

Empires Through History; and Fascist Ideology: 1919-Present (final year course)

Oxford Brookes University, Oct. 2000-Dec. 2007, Associate Lecturer in History:

Taught weekly MA in Nazi Propaganda, 1919-1933, Autumn 2007

Taught on various courses as hourly-paid lecturer, 2000-2007, including:

Language, Literature, and Discourse (first year course); The Weimar Republic and

Rise of Nazism, Empire, Welfare and Dictatorship: The Emergence of the Modern

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World and The Interwar Crisis in Europe, 1918-1939 (all second year courses);

and The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933-1945 (third year course)

Doctoral Students (6 completions to date): Lotta Einarsson, PhD. on Beckett,

2015 (University of Stockholm, External Supervisor); Eliot Assoudeh, PhD. on

fascist ideology 2017; (University of Nevada, Reno, External Supervisor); Paul

Stocker, PhD. on fascist imperialism, 2017 (Teesside University, Director of

Studies); Pavneet Kaur (University of Northampton, External Supervisor), PhD. on

Beckett, 2017; Alex Carter (Teesside University, Second Supervisor), on

reciprocal radicalisation, 2017; Megan Hayes (Teesside University, Second

Supervisor), on literature and psychology, 2017

EXTERNAL EXAMININATION OF POSTGRADUATE THESES:

1 MPhil., University of Bristol

7 PhD., Royal Holloway; University of Warwick; University of Reading, Trinity College,

Dublin (Ireland); University of Antwerp (Belgium); University of Otago (New Zealand);

Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic);

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS BY INVITATION

‘From the totalitarian to identitarian far-right’, keynote lecture, ‘Contesting the Populist

Challenge’, University of Malmö, Nov. 2017

Beckett’s nominalist politics and the pitfalls of “presentism”, ‘Beckett and Politics’

keynote lecture, Beckett International Foundation, University of Reading, Nov. 2016

‘Islamophobia in cyberspace and the impact of social media’, National Black Prosecutors

Association 16th Annual conference, plenary lecture, London, Oct. 2016

‘“…suggesting pursuit of knowledge at some period”: On preparing Samuel Beckett’s

Philosophy Notes for publication’, Keynote lecture, Samuel Beckett Summer School,

Dublin, Aug. 2016

‘Mapping “networks of support” for radical right self-directed terrorists’, University of

Swansea, Jul. 2016

‘Ezra Nazi?’, Masterclass and Public Lecture, Talking Literature Talking Theory series,

York St. Johns University, Apr. 2016

‘Ezra Pound and the Salò Republic: Epic poetry and Axis propaganda’, Public lecture,

Anglia Ruskin University, Apr. 2016

‘Radicalisation and Terrorist ‘communities of support’, Understanding Ideological

Radicalisation: mapping methods and models, Malmö University symposium, Feb. 2016

‘Neo-Nazi terrorism: From text to trial’, Legal Proceedings Against Right-Wing

Terrorism, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Dec. 2015

‘Back to the Future’: 21st Century Lone Wolf Terrorism’, Hate Crimes and Terrorism

keynote lecture, UCLAN, Sep. 2015

‘Some features of doublespeak and right-wing extremist rhetoric today’, keynote lecture,

Cults, Racism and the Search for Justice, Institute for Race Relations, May 2015, online

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at: http://laroucheplanet.info/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Cult.Seminarlondon22may15

‘Holocaust and Film’, Holocaust Memorial Day lecture, Teesside University, Jan. 2015

‘Beckett and BBC Radio’, Postgraduate seminar series, Durham University, Oct. 2014

Respondent for six presentations, Art in Battle, University of Bergen, Norway, Aug. 2014

‘Anti-Muslim prejudice as the “new normal” in Western Europe”, First Rhodes Project

Colloquium, Rhodes, Greece, Jun. 2014

‘An empirical overview of Beckett’s non-canonical BBC works’, University of New

South Wales, Australia, Apr. 2014

‘Reopening the “case” of Ezra Pound’s radio propaganda for Italian Fascism, University

of Sydney, Australia, Apr. 2014

Masterclass on the BBC Third Programme’s adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s ‘trilogy’ of

novels, University of New South Wales, Australia, Apr. 2014

‘Pound and Autocracy: Medieval to Modern’, Unattended Moments: The Medieval

Presence in the Modernist Tradition conference, University of Otago, New Zealand Apr.

2014

Concluding roundtable discussant, ‘Realism and Nominalism in the Modernist Tradition’,

Unattended Moments: The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Tradition conference,

Apr. 2014

Masterclass on Ezra Pound’s poetry and politics, University of Otago, New Zealand, Apr.

2014

‘Pound's poetry and propaganda for the Salò Republic: this be treason?', Literature and

Law Seminar, University of Leeds, Nov. 2013

“Canto 73”, Ezra Pound Reading Group, Institute of English Studies, London, Nov. 2013

‘Beckettian Philosophy’, Chulalakorn University, Thailand, Aug. 2013

‘Beckett at the BBC revisited’, University of Cambridge, Modernism Seminar, Jun. 2013

“A Political Religion from Prison? Pound and Postwar Fascism”, University of Bergen,

Norway, Dec. 2012

From First to Second Wave Fascism: Ezra Pound and Fascism”, A Special Relationship of

Hate? 50 years of the Anglo-American Far-Right, University of Northampton, Sept. 2012

“Towards an empirical reconstruction of Ezra Pound and radio, 1910-1945”, Broadcasting

in the Modernist Era, symposium, University of Oxford, Feb. 2012

‘Beckettian Phenomenologies’, Beckett/Philosophy Book Launch, University of Sofia,

Bulgaria, Oct. 2011

‘Beckett, Windelband and the archival “Philosophy Notes’”, Samuel Beckett: Out of the

Archive, International Conference, University of York, Jun. 2011

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‘Political Religions and “Propagators of Faith” II: Italian Fascism and Ezra Pound’,

University of Bergen, Apr. 2011

‘Political Religions and “Propagators of Faith” I: Stalinism and the USSR in

Construction’, University of Bergen, Feb. 2011

‘Universal Nazism in Britain: The Case of the Aryan Strike Force’, “Fascist Radicalism

and the New Media” symposium, University of Northampton, Sep. 2010

‘Beckett and Philosophy, 1928-1938: A Falsifiable Reappraisal’, British Comparative

Literature Association XII International Conference, Jul. 2010

‘Ezra Pound and Fascism, New Directions: Some Archival Revelations’, British

Comparative Literature Association XII International Conference, University of Kent, Jul.

2010

‘Extremism, self-censorship and the successful fifth-column discourse: the cases of Hamas

in the Gaza Strip and the BNP in England’, WOCMES Biennial Conference, University of

Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2010

‘The Husserlian Centaur: Beckett and the phenomenological turn in 1938’, University of

Stockholm, May 2010

‘Neo-fascist terrorism: Neil Lewington as case study’, Oxford Brookes University, Apr.

2010

‘Artistic Propaganda in the 1930s’, Public Lecture, Daventry Abbey Centre,

Northamptonshire, Oct. 2009

`An analysis of the far-right’s performance in the 2009 European elections’, “Speaking

with forked tongues: the rhetoric of right-wing extremism today”, symposium, University

of Northampton, Jun. 2009

‘Trying to “say the unsayable”: the Holocaust and Mainstream Film Since 1992’, “Britain

and the Holocaust”, University of Leicester, May 2009

‘Propaganda as political religion in SSSR na Stroike, 17th Annual British French

Conference on Russian Studies, University of Paris X, Nanterre, France, Apr. 2009

‘Beckett and Philosophy Redux’, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, Jun. 2009

‘Make it Crude: Ezra Pound’s Anti-Semitic Propaganda for the BUF and PNF’, Italian

Cultural Institute, London, Nov. 2008

‘The Global Village and People of Goodwill”, Strathclyde University, Aug. 2008

‘“…showing a corner of the calamity”: The Shoah in mainstream cinema, c.1993 – 2008’,

Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Jun. 2008

‘Beckett and Phenomenology via Husserl and Derrida’, Occasional Papers Series,

University of Southampton, Feb. 2008

‘Genocide in the Modern World’, Oriel College, University of Oxford, Feb. 2008

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‘How to “eff the ineffable”: Samuel Beckett’s “Interwar Notes” on Arnold Geulincx’,

Park Campus, University of Northampton, Jan. 2008

‘The Iraq War and Just War Theory’, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, Nov. 2007

‘Beckett and Phenomenology’ Round Table, University of Warwick, Nov. 2007

‘Between Propaganda and Political Religion: The Modernist Construction of the 1930s

Stalinist Utopia’, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea Jun. 2007

‘Publishing in Higher Education’, Christ Church, University of Oxford, Apr. 2007

‘“…if both body and soul are foolish, what is my intelligence worth?”’, Institute of

English Studies, University of London, Feb. 2007

‘Fascist Ideology and “Beginning Time Anew”’, Wolfson College, University of Oxford,

May 2006

‘Beckett and the Presocratics’, International Seminar on Genetic Beckett and Joyce

Studies, University of Antwerp Mar. 2006

“The Holocaust as Nazi ‘Morality’”, Public Lecture, Kettering Museum, Jul. 2005

‘“What Stink of Artifice”: Popper and Beckett’, Beckett International Foundation Annual

Seminar, University of Reading, Jun. 2004

‘How far is the ideology of liberalism a cover for types of imperialism?’, Contemporary

Ideology Forum, Oxford Brookes University, Oct. 2004

‘“Just war” in Iraq: Dyspraxis and Destruction’, Contemporary Ideology Forum, Oxford

Brookes University, Mar. 2003

‘Martin Heidegger as Political Philosopher’, “Challenges to Globalisation from Left and

Right”, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Jun. 2002