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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