1. Reza Sattarzadeh Nowbari
Victoria University of Wellington – Room 918, Von Zedlitz building,
Kelburn Campus
Tell: +64 21 2020 676
e-mail: reza_s_nobari@yahoo.com
Reza.Nowbari@vuw.ac.nz
Profile
Young, carrier-minded individual who is absolutely conscientious about work and education
with excellent communication abilities. I enjoy working on multicultural issues and the
historicity of texts as well as textuality of history. Other areas of my expertise include
TESOL, EFL/ESL and curriculum development.
Education
May 2014 – Present Victoria University ofWellington – Wellington, NewZealand
PhD – English Literature
March 2012 - July 2013 International Training Institute – Istanbul, Turkey
DELTA (Diploma of English Language Teaching to Adults)
July 2011 Izmir University of Economics – Izmir, Turkey
CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults)
2008 - 2010 Islamic Azad University – Tabriz, Iran
M.A. in English Literature (Thesis title: The Representation of
French Revolution in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables: A new Historicist Reading)
2004 - 2008 Payam-e Nour University – Shabestar, Iran
B.A. in English Translation Studies
Work Experience
July 2014 – Present Victoria University of Wellington
Teaching Assisstant

2. September 2011 – March 2014 Foundation Institute of University of Nizwa
English Lecturer
Exams Moderator
July 2009 – September 2011 Kish Institute of Science and Technology
Branch Supervisor – Placement test interviewer
Syllabus designer – In charge of educational affairs
July 2007 –September 2011 Kish Institute of Science and Technology
English Teacher – Senior levels and IELTS
Published Papers
Sattarzadeh Nowbari, Reza. "The Representation of the French Revolution in Charles
Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables: A New
Historicist Reading." in esse: English Studies in Albania Journal of the Albanian
Society for the Study of English (ASSE) . 1.2 (2010): 25-40. Print.
Sattarzadeh Nowbari, Reza. "Assassin's Creed, Origins and Downfall of Islamic
Terrorism." International Proceedings of Economic Development and Research
Social Sciences and Humanity. 31. (2012): 206-210. Print.
Presented Papers
February 2015 University of Auckland, Australasian Victorian Studies
Association Annual Conference (Will present)
Paper Title: Memory of the Revolution in the Victorian Age: A
Case study of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
January 2015 Victoria University of Wellington, Women and Nineteenth-
Century Literature
Paper Title: “Female(s) and Femininity in Charles Dickens’s A
Tale of Two Cities: A Feminist New Historicist Reading”
December 2014 Freiburg, Germany, International Journal of Arts and
Sciences, Interdisciplinary Conference in a “Study Abroad”
Format

3. Paper Title: Theatricality of the Revolution in Thomas
Carlyle’s History of the French revolution
August 2014 Victoria University of Wellington, SEFTMS annual Post-
graduate Conference
Paper Title: Origins of Carlyle's French Revolution and its
Impact on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, A new Historicist
Practice
July 2012 Mansfield College, Oxford, 3rd Global Inter-disciplinary
Conference on Revenge
Paper title: ‘Vengeance’ in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two
Cities as a Result of the French Revolution, A New Historicist
Approach
May 2012 Mulhouse, Université de Haute-Alsace, “Charles Dickens
and Europe” International Conference
Paper title: French revolution as a feminine character in Charles
Dickens's A Tale of two Cities, Why? A feminist new historicist
reading
March 2012 Chennai, 2012 International Conference on Social Science
and Humanity
Paper title: Assassin's Creed, Origins and Downfall of Islamic
Terrorism
July 2011 Mansfield college, Oxford, 3rd Global Inter-disciplinary
Conference Videogame Cultures
Paper title: Assassin's Creed, Origins and Downfall of Islamic
Terrorism
June 2011 University of Bucharest, Romania, 13th annual conference
of English Department
Paper title: French revolution as a feminine character in Charles
Dickens's A Tale of two Cities, Why? A feminist new historicist
reading
May 2011 Warsaw, Poland, 2nd Global Inter-disciplinary Conference
Making sense of Pain
Paper title: Jude's thorough pain as the representation of its
author's in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, a new
historicist's approach
May 2011 Warsaw, Poland, 3rd Global Inter-disciplinary Conference
Evil, Women and the Feminine

4. Paper title: French revolution as a feminine character in Charles
Dickens's A Tale of two Cities, Why? A feminist new historicist
reading
September 2010 University of Vlore, Albania, The Said and the Unsaid
Conference
Paper title: The Representation of the French Revolution in
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Victor Hugo's Les
Misérables: A New Historicist Reading
Attended Conferences
May 2014 Victoria University of Wellington, Fast History, Slow
Reading, He Pukapuka Tataku Tenei Symposium
Fluent in: English, Turkish, Azeri, Persian, Arabic and French
B.A. GPA: 16.69/20
M.A. GPA: 18.65/20
IELTS academic score: 8.5
CELTA (grade B)
DELTA (Module 1: Pass)
DELTA (Module 2: Pass)
DELTA (Module 3: Pass with Merit)