In 2010 Paul Arthur will take up the position of Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the History program at the Australian National University. Since 2007 he has been a Targeted Research Fellow in Information Commons at Curtin University, 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.
Paul Arthur has written widely on the history of technology and media, digital culture and identity, and new methods for humanities research. He has also published on exploration and empire since the seventeenth century. His first book, Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837, is a literary history, connecting early modern print genres of travel writing and cartography with European colonialism in Australia and the Pacific. His forthcoming book, History and New Media, considers the digital future of historical studies, arguing that user navigation is replacing traditional kinds of narration – with major consequences for how we will know the past. Both titles will be published by Anthem Press in 2009-10. A new book project, with the working title of Digital Biography: Lives Online, explores the impact of technology on identity, memory and life writing. In a series of related articles Paul Arthur has discussed the broader impact of the digital revolution from the perspectives of cultural history, literary theory, museology, information science and design. He is currently editing a collection of essays, with Australian historian Geoffrey Bolton, on the history of Fremantle, Western Australia, and is 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’).
In 2008 Paul Arthur received the Curtin University 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 was a keynote speaker representing the humanities at the inaugural e-Research Australasia conference in Queensland 2007, and co-convened the ‘Recovering Lives’ conference, hosted jointly by the Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra 2008. Paul Arthur has various advisory roles, including as an International Reader for the Australian Research Council.
Paul Arthur has held a number of visiting fellowships, scholarships and awards, 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.
Paul Arthur has a PhD from The University of Western Australia (Department of English), Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in English and Comparative Literature and Communication Studies (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). Outside of university life he is a violinist, with an AMusA awarded with Distinction by the Australian Music Examinations Board.
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Visiting Research Fellow – 6 weeks in 2009-10
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – 6 months in 2009-10
HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – 6 months in 2009
Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
(researching and teaching his seminar course ‘Writing History with New Media’)
Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Award, Curtin University – 2008
Academic staff winner for ‘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’.
Research Fellow – 4 months in 2007
Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
Manning Clark Residential Fellow – 2 months in 2007
Manning Clark House, Canberra (co-funded by Australian Copyright Agency Limited)
Visiting Research Fellow – 3 months in 2006
Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University
Helen and John S. Best Research Fellow – 2 months in 2004
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA
International Associate – Fall 2004
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA
(concurrent with Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowship)
Australian Academy of the Humanities Fieldwork Fellowship – 2004
Travel grant for research at the American Geographical Society Library
Honorary Research Fellow – 2003
SymbioticA – The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory
School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
Visiting Scholar – 1 month in 1998
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University
Conference Visitorship – 2 weeks in 1998
Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University
Postgraduate Research Travel Award – 1996 winner
Graduates Association, The University of Western Australia
Visiting Scholar – 2 months in 1996
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Australian Postgraduate Research Award – PhD scholarship, 1996-2000
Australian Government
Murdoch University Undergraduate Scholarship – 1990
One awarded annually in Western Australia by state-wide competition – for Bachelor of Arts degree, English and Comparative Literature program.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
April 2010– Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography
Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography, History program, Research School of Social Sciences , The Australian National University
2007–2010 Targeted Research Fellow (Information Commons)
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Western Australia
2007–2009 Adjunct Research Fellow
Research School of Humanities, The Australian National University, (concurrent with Targeted Research Fellowship, Curtin University, Western Australia)
2004–2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Social and Community Research, Division of Arts/Division of Health Sciences, Murdoch University, Western Australia
2004–2007 Research Director
‘Voices from the West End: The Fremantle Living Histories Project’, an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, (concurrent with Murdoch University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship)
2003 Senior Research Officer
Interactive Television Research Institute/Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University, Western Australia
2002 Project Manager (Research and Development)
Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia
2002 Research Associate
SymbioticA – The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
1999–2000 Graduate Research Assistant
Commonwealth Literature Prize judging panel, Asia/Pacific region, Murdoch University, Western Australia (funded by the British Council)
QUALIFICATIONS
DEGREES:
2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Department of English, The University of Western Australia
1994 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in English and Comparative Literature and Communication Studies
Murdoch University, Western Australia
DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES:
2008 Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management
The University of Western Australia Business School
2005 Certificate in Professional Writing
Institute for Communication Improvement, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Competent Toastmaster Certificate (CTM)
Toastmasters International, USA
1996 Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with ‘A–Merit’ grading
International Learning Centre, Edinburgh, UK
1987 Associate of Music (AMusA) with High Distinction (Violin)
Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB)
PUBLICATIONS
FORTHCOMING:
Arthur, Paul Longley. Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837, London: Anthem Press (Studies in Travel), 2009.
Arthur, Paul Longley. History and New Media, London: Anthem Press, 2010.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online’, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies special issue ‘New Directions in Biography’ (2009).
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Trauma Online: Public Exposure of Personal Grief and Suffering’, Traumatology special issue ‘Trauma and History’ (2009).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing’, in Save As… Digital Memories, Joanne Garde-Hansen, Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading (eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 44-59.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Virtual Strangers: e-Research and the Humanities’, Australian Cultural History 27.1 (2009): 47-59.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Digital Fabric, Narrative Threads: Patchwork Designs on History’, Interdisciplinary Humanities 25.2 (2008): 106-20.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Pixelated Memory: New Media Responses to Trauma and Crisis’, Interactive Media special issue ‘Trauma’ 4 (2008): available at http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/nass_im_journal.htm.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Exhibiting History: The Digital Future’, reCollections 3.1 (2008): available at http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_3_no_1/papers.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Participating in the Past: Recording Lives in Digital Environments’, Cultural Studies Review special issue ‘History Experiments’ 14.1 (2008): 187-202.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Fictions of Encounter: Eighteenth Century Imaginary Voyages to the Antipodes’, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49.3 (2008): 197-210.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Digital Lives: Oral Histories, Community Building and Experimental Media’, Issues in Writing special issue ‘Writing Interviews and Oral Histories’ 17.1-2 (2007-8): 118-42.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Experimental Histories and Digital Interactivity: Evaluating Three User-Navigable Texts’, EnterText 6.3 (2007): available at http://arts.brunel.ac.uk/gate/entertext/6_3/ET63ArthurED.doc.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Antipodean Myths Transformed: The Evolution of Australian Identity’, Blackwell History Compass 5.6 (2007): 1862-1878: available at http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/section_home?section=hico-australasia-and-pacific.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Hypermedia History: Changing Technologies of Representation for Recording and Portraying the Past’, InterCulture special issue ‘Revisioning History’ 3.3 (2006): available at http://iph.fsu.edu/interculture/pdfs/arthur%20hypermedia.pdf.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Multimedia and the Narrative Frame: Navigating Digital Histories’, Refractory special issue ‘Traversing Narrative Media: Histories, Identities, Futures’ 9 (2006): available at http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2006/07/04/multimedia-and-the-narrative-frame-navigating-digital-histories-paul-arthur/.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Interactive Histories: Reflecting on Current Issues in the Database History Field’, Southern Review special issue ‘Online Archives and Virtual Collections’ 31.1 (2005): 8-17.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Capturing the Antipodes’, in Graeme Harper (ed.), Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, London: Continuum, 2002. 205-18.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Australia 2000: Visions of the Future’, in David Buchbinder (ed.), Start Trek and Endgame, Perth: Black Swan Press, 2002. 23-31.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Imaginary Voyages and the Romantic Imagination’, Journal of Australian Studies 25.67 (2001): 186-95.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Imaginary Conquests’, Journal of Australian Studies special issue ‘Imaginary Homelands: The Dubious Cartographies of Australian Identity’ 23.61 (1999): 136-42.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Fantasies of the Antipodes’, in Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan (eds.), Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. 37-46.
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘From Politics to Pleasure: Coleridge and Romantic Imperialism’, Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 45 (1997): 73-87.
PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Arthur, Paul Longley. ‘Future Humanities: Technology and Transformation’, Conference Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Arts and Humanities, CD-ROM (ISSN 1541-5889), Honolulu, 2009.
PRESENTATIONS
KEYNOTE:
July 2007 – ‘Going Digital: e-Research and the Humanities Research Revolution’. Keynote paper, inaugural e-Research Australasia conference, The University of Queensland, Australia.
http://www.eresearch.edu.au/arthur
OTHER CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINARS AND VISITING LECTURES:
October 2009 – ‘Digital History in Australia and New Zealand: An International Comparison’. Symposium paper, Contemporary History in the Digital Age symposium, The University of Luxembourg / Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE), Luxembourg.
http://blog.digitalhumanities.lu
September 2009 – ‘Exhibiting History’. Seminar paper, Department of Historical, Theological and Philosophical Studies, Umeå University, Sweden.
July 2009 – ‘Distributed Selves: Digital Biography and Life Writing’. Workshop paper, Biodigital Lives workshop, Centre for Material Digital Culture, University of Sussex, UK.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/rcmdc/1-2-5.html
May 2009 – Digital research methods discussion paper at New Media Boot Camp, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA.
http://cca.rutgers.edu/classes/colleagues/nmbootcamp.html
May 2009 – ‘Database History: New Designs on the Past’. Seminar paper, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA.
http://www4.uwm.edu/21st
April 2009 – ‘History in Motion: Digital Approaches to the Past’. Conference paper, MIT Media in Transition 6 conference, MIT, USA.
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6
March 2009 – ‘Writing History with New Media’. Seminar paper, HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden.
http://stream.humlab.umu.se/index.php?streamName=writinghistory
January 2009 – ‘Future Humanities: Technology and Transformation’. Conference paper, 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, USA.
http://www.hichumanities.org
September 2008 – ‘Historical GIS: Showcasing Western Australia’s Past, Present and Future’. Seminar paper, Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future symposium, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
http://pubapps.uws.edu.au/events_diary/event.php?id=1108
August 2008 – ‘Digital Biography’. Conference paper, Recovering Lives conference, The Australian National University/National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/recoveringlives/program.pdf
April 2008 – ‘From Memory to Mashups: History in Cyberspace’. Seminar paper, Department of Modern History/Centre for Media History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/cmh/news.php?events=1
November 2007 – ‘Future History’. Conference paper, 39th Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium, on the theme of ‘Future Humanities’, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
http://symposium.humanities.org.au/2007
October 2007 – ‘Digital Humanities and Life-Logging: Strategies for Historians’. Seminar paper, Department of History, The University of Sydney, Australia
August 2007 – ‘Digital Lives: Changing the Way We Remember’. Public lecture, Manning Clark House, Canberra, Australia
July 2007 – ‘Going Digital: e-Research and the Humanities Research Revolution’. Invited speaker, inaugural Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) forum, Auckland, New Zealand.
http://reannz.co.nz/assets/Uploads/Events/paul-arthur-vid.mp4
September 2006 – ‘Interactive Histories: Memory, Narrative and Digital Textuality’. Conference paper, Biography and Technology conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
September 2006 – ‘Directions in Digital History Research’. Seminar paper, The Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
July 2006 – ‘Experimental Digital Histories’. Conference paper, Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
September 2005 – ‘Voices from the West: Multimedia Documentary Research’. Conference paper, Annual State History Conference of Affiliated Societies, Fremantle, Western Australia
October 2004 – ‘Technologies of Travel and Representation’. Conference paper, International Society for Travel Writing conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
October 2004 – ‘Cartographies of Australian and American Exploration’. Seminar paper, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA
July 2004 – ‘Staging Cross-Cultural Encounters’. Conference paper, David Nichol Smith conference for 18th Century Studies, National Library of Australia/Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University
June 2004 – ‘Interactive Histories’. Conference paper, joint session of the Australian Historical Association conference and Computing Arts conference, Newcastle, Australia
November 2002 – ‘Virtual Realities: Literary Fantasies of Discovery and Colonisation’. Conference paper, Undisciplined Thoughts conference, Curtin University, Western Australia
August 2001 – ‘The Politics of Aboriginal Sovereignty in Australia’. Seminar paper, interdisciplinary forum facilitated by historian Henry Reynolds and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia
January 2001 – ‘Outback Down Under’. Seminar paper, History Department, University of California–Santa Barbara, USA
December 1998 – ‘Commonwealth Utopias and Speculative Fiction’. Conference paper, ACLALS Sharing a Commonwealth conference, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
April 1998 – ‘Australia 2000: Reading Predictive Histories’. Seminar paper, History Department, The University of Sydney, Australia
April 1998 – ‘Capturing the Antipodes: Imaginary Travel and Romantic Representation’. Conference paper, Re-Orienting Romanticism conference, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University
December 1997 – ‘Colonising the Future: Predictive Visions in European Literature’. Conference paper, ASPACLS Start Trek and Endgame: Millennial Politics, Narratives, Images conference, Fremantle, Western Australia
September 1997 – ‘Australia’s Dead Heart’. Conference paper, Intervarsity Conference for Social Science and Humanities Studies, St Catherine’s College, Perth, Western Australia
June 1997 – ‘Fantasies of the Australian Interior’. Conference paper, Australian Studies Travelling Conference, Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia
February 1997 – ‘Posing with La Perouse: Europe Imagines the Antipodes’. Conference paper, Australasian Modern British History Association conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
GRANTS
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL:
2005-8 – ARC Linkage Project grant ‘East Perth Power Station and the Electrification of Western Australia: Interpretation of an Historic Site’ (with a team of Chief Investigators from Australian universities, led by Assoc/Prof Lenore Layman, Murdoch University, Western Australia) ($280,000).
OTHER GRANTS:
2009 – Postdoctoral research fellowship at HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden (equivalent to approx AUD$20,000, stipend and travel expenses for 6 months).
2009 – Postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA (equivalent to approx AUD$20,000, stipend for 6 months).
2009 – Travel funding to present visiting seminar at HUMlab, the digital humanities centre at Umeå University, Sweden (equivalent to approx AUD$5000, for travel expenses).
2009 – Travel funding to present visiting seminar at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA (equivalent to approx AUD$1500, for travel expenses).
2009 – Research Performance Index (RPI) grant, Curtin University, Western Australia (AUD$2,500, for copy editing and book indexing expenses).
2008 – Pro Vice Chancellor’s Award (Humanities), Curtin University, Western Australia (AUD$1000).
2008 – Research Performance Index (RPI) grant, Curtin University, Western Australia (AUD$500, for research assistance).
2008 – Humanities staff travel grant, Curtin University, Western Australia (AUD$1000, for interstate conference travel expenses).
2008 – Travel funding to present paper at the Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future symposium, University of Western Sydney (approx AUD$1000, for travel expenses, provided by University of Western Sydney).
2008 – Travel funding to attend two Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) workshops arranged by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in Canberra in August and December as consultation for the second stage of the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) (approx AUD$2400, for travel expenses, provided by The Australian Academy of the Humanities and by Adjunct ANU Fellowship allowance).
2008 – Travel funding to present visiting seminar at the Macquarie University Department of Modern History (approx AUD$1100, for travel expenses, provided by Macquarie University Department of Modern History and Centre for Media History).
2007 – Curtin University Targeted Research Fellowship support grant. (total of AUD$30,000, for research expenses over four-year fellowship period).
2007 – Research fellowship, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia, Canberra (approx AUD$10,000, stipend and travel expenses for 4 months).
2007 – Residential fellowship, Manning Clark House, Canberra (approx AUD$5000, stipend and travel expenses for 2 months).
2007 – Travel funding to present keynote paper at the inaugural e-Research Australasia conference, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (approx AUD$2000, for travel expenses, provided by conference organisers).
2007 – Travel funding to present paper at The Australian Academy of the Humanities 38th annual symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (approx AUD$1200, for travel expenses, provided by symposium organisers).
2007 – Travel funding to present paper at postgraduate history seminar, The University of Sydney, Australia (approx AUD$500, for travel expenses, provided by The University of Sydney).
2007 – Travel funding to present paper at the inaugural Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) forum, Auckland, New Zealand (equivalent to approx AUD$2000, for travel expenses).
2007 – Freilich Foundation (Australia) grant to support the international ‘Racism and Anti-Racism’ conference (with Prof Craig McGarty) (AUD$4000, towards coordination costs of conference held at Murdoch University, Western Australia, October 2007).
2007 – City of Mandurah (Western Australia) grant for Indigenous oral history research (AUD$5000, to employ oral history coordinator on contract basis).
2006 – Visiting research fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University (approx AUD$9000, for research and travel expenses for 3 months).
2005 – Research Excellence Grants Scheme (REGS) Murdoch University funding for scoping study of the social impact of the Mandurah rail link (with Prof Peter Newman), in association with the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), Western Australia (AUD$5000).
2004 – Research Excellence Grants Scheme (REGS) Murdoch University funding to develop ARC Linkage application with City of Mandurah and Peel Development Commission, Western Australia (with Assoc/Prof Lenore Layman, Murdoch University, Western Australia) (AUD $5000).
2004 – Australian Academy of the Humanities Fieldwork Fellowship (AUD$2750, for research travel to USA).
2004 – Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowship at the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee USA (equivalent to AUD$2500, stipend and research expenses for 2 months).
1998 – Visiting scholarship, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University, for the month-long Writing Voyages and Encounters seminar (approx AUD$8000, for travel and accommodation expenses).
1998 – Conference visitorship to present paper at the Re-Orienting Romanticism conference, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University (approx AUD$2000, for travel expenses and conference fees).
1996-2000 – Australian Postgraduate Research Award, PhD scholarship (approx AUD$50,000, Australian Government stipend).
1996 – The University of Western Australia Graduates Association Postgraduate Research Travel Award (AUD$2000, for research travel to Portugal and England in 1997).
1996 – Visiting scholarship, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University (approx AUD$8000, research and travel expenses for two months).
1990-1992 – Murdoch University undergraduate scholarship for Bachelor of Arts degree, English and Comparative Literature program (AUD$1500, one awarded annually in Western Australia by state-wide competition).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
Expert Assessor of International Standing (INTREADER), Australian Research Council (2008–).
Editorial committee, The Australian National University e-Press ANU.LIVES book series in biography (2008–).
http://ncb.anu.edu.au/anulives
Advisory board, South Seas online information resource, National Library of Australia (2005–).
http://southseas.nla.gov.au
External member, Research Centre of Media, Memory and Community, University of Gloucestershire, UK (2009–).
http://www.glos.ac.uk/research/mac/mmc/Pages/externalmembers.aspx
Workshop participant and advisor to the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) expert working group (2008).
Advisor to The Australian Academy of the Humanities ARC-funded research project ‘Humanities and New Technologies: Research Methods and ICT use in Australian Humanities Research’ (2007–08).
http://www.humanities.org.au/Policy/HumTech
Review Panel, Review of the Bachelor of Arts degree program, The University of Notre Dame, Australia (2007).
Member of:
American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
Australian Historical Association (AHA)
Friends of the National Library of Australia
International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW)
International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
International Auto/Biography Association (IABA)
Network for Early European Research (NEER)
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