Dr Matthew Feldman

Role: S. Lecturer in Twentieth Century History
Area: Social Sciences - History

Telephone number: 01604 89 2575
Email address: matthew.feldman@northampton.ac.uk

Having obtained my degrees and initial teaching experience at Oxford Brookes University, I moved to the University of Northampton in 2004, was appointed HEFCE Promising Research Fellow award in 2005/6, and am currently a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History; the History Division's Senior Admissions Tutor; and direct the interdisciplinary 'Radicalism and New Media Research Group (www.radicalism-new-media-org/).

I also co-edit the online Wiley-Blackwell's journal 'Compass: Political Religions' (www.religion-compass.com/); the Continuum monograph series 'Historicizing Modernism' (www.continuumbooks.com/series/browse.aspx?SeriesId=2238&SubjectId=997) and am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bergen's 'Modernism and Christianity' research project.

I currently teach on the following modules:

The Holocaust and its Histories (year 1)
Empires Through History (year 2)
Research Skills (year 2)
Fascism's Century: Fascism 1919-Present (year 3)
Undergraduate dissertations (senior tutor, year 3)
Representing Total War (taught MA)
Master's Dissertations
PhD supervisions on 'revolutionary modernism' and 'political religions'

My ongoing research interests include 'political religions' and the role of the sacred in the modern world; revolutionary violence and extremist ideologies, and revolutionary modernism more generally. This extends to a large cultural inflection in my research, extending to the literary history of figures such as Martin Heidegger, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish and especially Samuel Beckett. Recent research has extended this scope of inquiry to US 'civil religion', media representations of the Holocaust, fascist ideology, and my current monograph, modernist propaganda during the interwar years.

Publications on NECTAR

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2009

Feldman, M. (2009) 'But what was this pursuit of meaning, in this indifference to meaning?': Beckett, Husserl, Sartre and 'Meaning Creation'. In: Maude, U. and Feldman, M. (eds.) Beckett and Phenomenology. London: Continuum. pp. 13-38.
Barfield, S., Tew, P. and Feldman, M., (eds.) (2009) Beckett and Death. London: Continuum. 9780826498359. [including lengthy editorial introduction]
Maude, U. and Feldman, M., (eds.) (2009) Beckett and Phenomenology. London: Continuum. 0826497144.
Feldman, M. and Mallet, R., (eds.) (2009) Revolutionary Ideologies and Dictatorship. England: Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230205031.
Feldman, M. and Nixon, M., (eds.) (2009) The International Reception of Samuel Beckett. London: Continuum. 9780826495815.

2008

Feldman, M., Georgescu, T., Griffin, R. and Jackson, P. (2008) Editor. Religion Compass: Political Religions section. England: Blackwell. 1749-8171.
Feldman, M., Griffin, R. and Mallet, R. (2008) Editor. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. England: Taylor & Francis. 1469-0764.
Feldman, M. (2008) '... showing a corner of the calamity': the Shoah in mainstream cinema, c. 1993-2008. Mass Dictatorship as Ever-Present Past, Hanyang University, South Korea, 26-29 June 2008. Seoul, South Korea: Research Institute for Contemporary History and Culture (RICH).
Griffin, R. (2008) A Fascist Century. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave. 9780230205185 (hardback); 0230220894 (paperback).
Feldman, M. (2008) Beckett's Books: a Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes'. Revised and reissued paperback of 2006 version. London: Continuum. 9780826443434.
Feldman, M., Turda, M. and Georgescu, T., (eds.) (2008) Clerical Fascism In Interwar Europe. London: Routledge. 0415448247. [including 8-page editorial introduction]
Feldman, M. (2008) David Irving and Holocaust denial. [Radio]. England: Holocaust Research Project. [Radio interview for BBC Radio Northampton] (Unpublished)
Feldman, M. (2008) Genocide in the modern world. Invited Keynote presented to: Genocide in the Modern World Aegis, Oriel College, University of Oxford, England, 15 February 2008.
Feldman, M. (2008) How to "eff the ineffable": Samuel Beckett's "Interwar Notes" on Arnold Geulincx. Invited Keynote presented to: Centre of Contemporary Fiction and Narrative (CCFN) Seminar Series, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, 30 January 2008.
Feldman, M. (2008) In defence of empirical knowledge: rejoinder to "A critique of excavatory reason", preceding Garin Dowd's "Prolegomena to a critique of excavatory reason: reply to Matthew Feldman". Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'Hui: Des Eléments aux Traces/Elements and Traces. 20, pp. 389-399. 0927-3131.
Feldman, M. (2008) Make it crude: Ezra Pound's anti-semitic propoganda for the BUF (British Union of Fascists) and PNF (Partito Nazionale Fascista). Other presented to: Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 26 November 2008.
Feldman, M. and Tonning, E. (2008) Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2008. Convenor presented to: Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2008, Regents Park College, Oxford, 25 April-13 June, 2008.
Feldman, M. (2008) The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia: genocide between political religion and religious politics. Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team (HEART) (electronic). .
Feldman, M. (2008) The LaRouche network. Other presented to: Is the LaRouche Group a danger to individuals and/or society, House of Democracy, Berlin Forum, Germany, 17 October 2008.
Feldman, M. (2008) The global village and "people of goodwill": 'We had to destroy the village to save it'. Invited Presentation presented to: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Neoliberalism Seminar Series, Centre for Public Policy and Regions, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 11 August 2008.

2007

Feldman, M. (2007) Editor. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions books series. Abingdon: Routledge. 1469-0764.
Feldman, M. (2007) Member of Editorial Board. Expert Reader for Palgrave, Taylor and Francis. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Feldman, M. (2007) Editor. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. Abingdon: Routledge. 1469-0764 .
Feldman, M. (2007) Editor. Revolutionary ideologies and dictatorship. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book series]
Feldman, M. (2007) Visiting Fellow. Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. (Unpublished)
Wilson, J., Mallet, R., Griffin, R. and Feldman, M. (2007) Member of Editorial Board. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 1469-0764.
Feldman, M. (2007) "...if both body and soul are foolish, what is my intelligence worth?" Beckett's manuscript transcriptions of "Geulincx, or, Effing the Ineffable". Paper presented to: Modern Manuscript Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 20 February 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) After “the end” of Samuel Beckett: influences, legacies, and “legacees”. In: Feldman, M. and Nixon, M. (eds.) Beckett’s Literary Legacies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1-21.
Feldman, M. (2007) Arnold Geulincx ethics: with Samuel Beckett's notes. The Beckett Circle. 30(2), pp. 16-17. .
Feldman, M., Katz, D., Garforth, J., Maude, U., Prosser, B., Nixon, M. and Bignell, J. (2007) Beckett and phenomenology: round table discussion. Panel Presentation presented to: Beckett and Visual Culture, University of Warwick, England, 17 November 2007.
Feldman, M. and Nixon, M., (eds.) (2007) Beckett's Literary Legacies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 9781847182814.
Feldman, M. (2007) Dead man walking: the centenary year of Samuel Beckett. The Samuel Beckett Endpage. . [Online]
Feldman, M. (2007) Just war theory and the Iraq war. Paper presented to: Rothermere American Institute (RAI) Research Fellows' Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 15 November 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) Modernism, propaganda, political religion: the construction of a Stalinist utopia. Paper presented to: Research Institute for Contemporary History and Culture, Hanyang University, South Korea, 26 June 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) Politics and religion. Paper presented to: Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), Dublin, 29 March 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) Publishing in academia. Paper presented to: Christchurch College, Oxford, 27 February 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) Review of 'Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947' by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi (ed). Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 1469-0764.
Feldman, M. (2007) Review of 'Götz and Meyer' by David Albahari (2006). Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 1469-0764.
Feldman, M. (2007) Review of 'Politics as Religion' by Emilio Gentile (2006). e-Extreme. 8(1) .
Feldman, M. and Tonning, E. (2007) Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2007. Convenor presented to: Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2007, Regents Park College, University of Oxford, 27 April - 15 June 2007.
Feldman, M. (2007) The depths of humanity. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team (H.E.A.R.T.) website. . Introductory comment

2006

Feldman, M. (2006) Beckett and Popper, or "What stink of artifice": some notes on methodology, falsifiability, and criticism in Beckett studies. In: Engelberts, M., Frost, E. and Maxwell, J. (eds.) Notes Diverse Holo: Catalogues of Beckett’s Reading Notes and Other Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin, with Supporting Essays. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 373-391.
Feldman, M. (2006) Beckett’s Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett’s “Interwar Notes”. London: Continuum. 082649059X.

2002

Feldman, M. (2002) Choose definitively between hell and reason. Third Text. 16(4), pp. 439-449. 0952-8822.

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Other publications

Monographs

Modernism and Propaganda, 1914-45 (contracted for 2012 with Palgrave)
Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Note'' (Continuum, 2006; revised and reissued in paperback, 2008)

Edited volumes

Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, 1922-1962, ed Matthew Feldman (2012, forthcoming)
Doublespeak: The Rhetoric of the Far-Right since 1945, eds Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson (2012, forthcoming)
Beckett/Philosophy, eds Matthew Feldman and Karim Mamdani (Sofia University Press, 2011)
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, eds Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, Matthijs Engelberts and Dirk van Hulle, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'Hui 22 (2010)
Beckett and Death, eds Steve Barfield, Matthew Feldman and Philip Tew (Continuum, 2009)
The International Reception of Samuel Beckett, eds Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman (Continuum, 2009)
Beckett and Phenomenology, eds Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman (Continuum, 2009)
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)
Beckett's Literary Legacies, eds Matthew Feldman and Mark Nixon (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
Fascism: Critical Concepts, 5 Vols, eds Roger Griffin with Matthew Feldman (Routledge, 2004)

Refereed articles and book chapters

'Beckett and Philosophy', in Beckett in Context, ed Anthony Uhlmann (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming 2012)
'The ''Pound Case'' in Historical Perspective: An Archival Overview', in Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming, 2012)
'Beckett and Windelband', in Sofia Philosophical Review (forthcoming, 2011) (with Paul Jackson) 'Britain's Extreme Right-wing and the New Media', in Far-right.co.uk, eds Paul Jackson and Nick Lowles (forthcoming, 2011)
'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 (2011)
'Preface', to Belzec Death Camp by Chris Webb (forthcoming, 2011)
'Stalinism, Modernism, and Political Religion: The Case of the USSR in Construction', in Religion Compass 6/5 (2011)
'Ezra Pound's Antisemitic Propaganda for the PNF and BUF', in Holocaust Studies, Special Issue: "Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain", 15/1-2 (2010)
'''I am not a philosopher'' Beckett and Philosophy: A Methodological and Thematic Introduction', in Sofia Philosophical Review 3/2 (2010)
'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)
'Editorial Introduction' and 'Concluding Interview', in A Fascist Century: Essays by Roger Griffin (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)

Online texts and podcasts:

Working papers, 'Genocide and the Modern World', Radicalism and New Media Research Group 1/1 (May 2011), online at: radicalism -new-media.org/wp-content/ uploads /2011/ 05/RNMWP001.pdf
Research Report on 'broadband terrorism', Extremism and Democracy, Apr. 2011, online at: 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, Sept. 2010, online at: 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: holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/holocaustdenial.html'7 years of (unconvincing) lies in 39 minutes', Truthout, April 2010, online at: truthout.org/ seven-years-unconvincing-lies-39-minutes-a-primer 58695
'Beckett, Sartre and Phenomenology', Limit(e) Beckett, Launch Issue, February 2010, online at: limitebeckett.paris-sorbonne.fr/zero/feldman.html
Review of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism for History News Network, Jan. 2010, online at: hnn.us/articles/122247.html, and hnn.us/articles/122744.html
'Pinstriped Fascism', History & Policy, Nov. 2009, online at: 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 Post Secular Age", Sept. 2009, online at: 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: historyandpolicy.org/opinion/opinion_15.html
Podcasted interview with Beckett actress Rosemary Pountney for The Samuel Beckett Endpage, Aug. 2009, online at: ua.ac.be/main. aspx?c=*SBECKETT&n=81392
Podcasted interview with Ana Soage, 'The Pax Islamica: Totalitarianism, Islamism and "Islamo-fascism"', Oct. 2008, online at: religioncompass.wordpress.com/category/podcast
'The Global Village and People of Goodwill: "We had to destroy the village to save it"', "De-Ideologisation", ESRC Neoliberalism Seminar, Aug. 2008, online at: cppr.ac.uk/centres/cppr/ esrcneoliberalismseminar
'Genocide between Religious Politics and Political Religion', 2007, online at: tandf.co.uk/ journals/journal.asp?issn=1469-0764&linktype=1
'Returning to Beckett returning to the Presocratics, or, "All their balls about being and existing"', Genetic Joyce Studies, Issue 6, 2006, online at: antwerpjamesjoycecenter.com/ GJS/GJS6/GJS6Feldman.htm
'Dead Man Walking', 2006 Centenary Piece for The Samuel Beckett Endpage, online at: ua.ac.be/ main.aspx?c=*SBECKETT&n=41967
Review of Emilio Gentile's Politics as Religion (2006), online at: webhost.ua.ac.be/ extremismanddemocracy/newsletter/News8_1.htm
Articles on Lyndon LaRouche and Anti-Semitism, online at: holocaustresearchproject.org/ essays&editorials/duggan2.html; holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/ larouche.html; and holocaustresearchproject.org/essays&editorials/larouche2.html

Book reviews

Review Article for Holocaust Studies (2011)
The New Extremism in 21st century Britain (Party Politics, 2011)
The Study of Religion under the Impact of Fascism (EHQ, 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)

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