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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZDr Paul Arthur
Paul Arthur has a PhD from The University of Western Australia (Department of English), Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Murdoch University, Western Australia), and Diplomas of Leadership and Management (The University of Western Australia Business School) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (International Learning Centre, Edinburgh). He is also a violinist, with an AMusA (Distinction) awarded by the Australian Music Examinations Board.
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- Role:
- Research Fellow
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- Department:
- School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts
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- Location:
- Bldg 209 - Humanities
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- Telephone:
- +61 8 9266 7648
Paul Arthur is a Curtin Targeted Research Fellow in Information Commons at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. During 2009 Paul Arthur is a visiting fellow at two international centres – Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA (teaching his seminar course ‘Writing History with New Media’), and HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden.
Research Interests
Paul Arthur’s publications consider writing, media, culture and globalisation since the seventeenth century from various perspectives including cultural history, biography, literary theory, museology and information science. In a series of papers he traces the impact of the digital revolution on humanities research, including on libraries, archives and museums. His latest book project, with the working title History and New Media, focuses on the digital future of historical studies. His first book, Virtual Voyages: Travel to the Antipodes 1606-1837 (forthcoming, Anthem Press London, Studies in Travel), is a literary history, connecting early modern print genres of travel writing and cartography with European colonialism in Australia and the South Pacific. Paul Arthur is currently editing a collection of essays, with Australian historian Geoffrey Bolton, on the history of Fremantle, Western Australia. He is also guest editor for upcoming issues of the Routledge journal Life Writing (on ‘Recovering Lives’) and Canada’s museum studies journal Material Culture Review (on ‘Virtual Exhibitions’). Paul Arthur was a keynote speaker at the inaugural e-Research Australasia conference in Queensland 2007. He co-convened the ‘Recovering Lives’ conference, hosted jointly by the Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra 2008. An International Reader for the Australian Research Council (ARC), he is also an advisor to the ARC-funded Australian Academy of the Humanities project ‘Humanities and New Technologies: Research Methods and ICT use in Australian Humanities Research’.
Awards
In 2008 Paul Arthur received the Curtin University of Technology Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Award for his ‘important contribution to the goals of the Faculty of Humanities and the wider University’ though ‘work in the field of e-humanities and digital history’. He has held a number of visiting fellowships and scholarships, including an inaugural fellowship at the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia (2007), a residential fellowship at Manning Clark House, Canberra (2007) and a visiting fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2006). In 2004 he was Helen and John S. Best Research Fellow at the American Geographical Society Library and an International Associate of the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In the same year he received an Australian Academy of the Humanities Fieldwork Fellowship. Paul Arthur was a visiting scholar at the Australian National University on three occasions between 1996 and 1998 (at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research). He was winner of The University of Western Australia Graduates Association Postgraduate Research Travel Award in 1996.
Publications
Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)
- Arthur, P. 2002. Capturing the Antipodes. In Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, eds Graeme Harper, 205-218. London: Continuum.
- Arthur, P. 2002. Australia 2000: Visions of the Future. In Start Trek and End Game, eds David Buchbinder, 23-32. Perth: Black Swan Press.
Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)
- Arthur, P. 2008. Pixelated Memory: Online Commenoration of Trauma and Crisis. IM Interactive Media: E-Journal of the National Academic of Screen and Sound (4).
- Arthur, P. 2008. Digital Fabric, Narrative Threads: Patchwork Designs on History. Interdisciplinary Humanities 25(2): 106-120.
- Arthur, P. 2008. Exhibiting History: The Digital Future. reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia 3(1).
- Arthur, P. 2008. Fictions of Encounter: Eighteenth-Century Imaginary Voyages to the Antipodes. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39(3): 197-210.
- Arthur, P. 2007. Experimental Histories and Digital Interactivity: Evaluating Three User-Navigable Texts. EnterText 6(3).
- Arthur, P. 2007. Antipodean Myths Transformed: The Evolution of Australian Identity. History Compass 5/6: 1862-1878.
- Arthur, P. 2006. Hypermedia History: Changing Technologies of Representation for Recording and Portraying the Past. InterCulture 3(3).
- Arthur, P. 2006. Multimedia and the Narrative Frame: Navigating Digital Histories’. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media special issue ‘Narrative and the Moving Image. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media (9).
- Arthur, P. 2005. Interactive Histories: Reflecting on Current Issues in the Database History Field. Southern Review 31(1): 8-17.