Biography

Neema Parvini took his BA (hons) in English from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2004. During his time as an undergraduate he won the a McDonalds Scholarship (2001), the Margaret Bretherton Memorial Prize (2002), the Gertrude Schryver Prize (2004) and the Edmée Manning Award (2004). He gained his Masters degree in twentieth-century literature from Oxford university with distinction in 2005. He returned to Royal Holloway in 2006, where he was awarded a Thomas Holloway Scholarship to read for his PhD, which he completed in 2010.

Prior to joining the University of Surrey, Neema taught at Royal Holloway and Brunel. Since 2010 he has run the ‘Shakespeare and His World’ course at Richmond, The American International University in London.

He is the author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2012).

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory podcast series: http://www.uniofsurreyblogs.org.uk/shakespeare/

Research Interests

Publications

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2012).

Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Teaching

Departmental Duties

Dissertations Officer
Personal Development Plan (PDP) Officer
Deputy Examinations Officer
Fire Warden