Dr Paul Arthur

Adjunct Research Fellow
Curtin University of Technology

E: paul.arthur@anu.edu.au

start date: January 01, 2007
end date: December 21, 2009

Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

Short biography:

Dr Paul Arthur is a Research Fellow at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University.

He has held various visiting fellowships, including to the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA (forthcoming, 2008-9), the National Museum of Australia (2007), the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2006), and through the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2004). In 2004 he was Helen and John S. Best Research Fellow at the American Geographical Society Library and an Associate of the Center for 21st Century Studies, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA).

Research Interests:

Dr Arthur's research focuses on how new technologies are transforming the way history is recorded and studied. He was drawn to the digital history field after completing a PhD in eighteenth century literary history at The University of Western Australia. Prior to taking up a position at Curtin University he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Murdoch University. He has published widely on digital humanities topics and also on Australian cultural history.