PROFILE

Paul Arthur studied at the University of Western Australia and held research fellowships in Europe, North America and Australia before taking up the position of Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University. He is inaugural Chair of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities and also serves on the executive committee of the International Auto/Biography Association and the advisory board of the Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres. His forthcoming book, History and New Media, examines how technology is transforming knowledge of the past. Recent publications include Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837 (2010), a history of European travel literature and cartography, and the edited volumes Recovering Lives (2011, Life Writing special issue) and Voices from the West End (with Geoffrey Bolton, in press). He is editor of the Anthem book series Scholarship in the Digital Age (Anthem Press, London and New York).

Over the past decade Paul Arthur has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2010-11), HUMlab, the digital research centre at Umeå University, Sweden (2009-10), the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, USA (2009), the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia (2007), Manning Clark House, Canberra (2007) and 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 has a PhD from the University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in English and Comparative Literature (Murdoch University, Western Australia), and Diplomas of Leadership and Management (University of Western Australia Business School) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (International Learning Centre, Edinburgh). Paul is also a violinist, with an Associate of Music (AMusA with distinction, Australian Music Examinations Board). He has performed and recorded with international artists including Yothu Yindi, Andrew Farriss, Tania Kernaghan, Billy Thorpe and José Padilla.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Australian history, literature and culture; biography and life writing; digital humanities and e-research; dictionaries and encyclopedias; history of technology and media; early modern travel and empire; cross-cultural history; literary history; cartography.

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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Honorary Visiting Research Fellow – 2010-11
Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Research Fellow – 6 months in 2009-10
HUMlab, the digital research centre at Umeå University, Sweden

Research Fellow – 6 months in 2009
Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Pro-Vice Chancellor's Award, Curtin University – 2008
Academic staff award 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, Canberra

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, 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
(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, University of Western Australia

Visiting Scholar – 1 month in 1998
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University

Conference Visitorship – 2 weeks in 1998
Humanities Research Centre, 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, 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

Current– Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography
Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

2007–2010 Targeted Research Fellow (Information Commons)
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

2007–2009 Adjunct Research Fellow
Research School of Humanities, Australian National University (concurrent with Targeted Research Fellowship, Curtin University, Perth, Australia)

2004–2007 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Social and Community Research, Division of Arts/Division of Health Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, 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, Perth, Australia

2002 Project Manager (Research and Development)
Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

2002 Research Associate
SymbioticA – The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia

1999–2000 Graduate Research Assistant
Commonwealth Literature Prize judging panel, Asia/Pacific region, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (funded by the British Council)

QUALIFICATIONS

DEGREES:

2002 Doctor of Philosophy
Department of English, University of Western Australia

1994 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in English and Comparative Literature and Communication Studies
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES:

2008 Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management
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)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Arthur, Paul Longley. History and New Media. London & New York: Anthem Press (Scholarship in the Digital Age), forthcoming in 2012.

Arthur, Paul Longley. Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837. London & New York: Anthem Press (Studies in Travel), 2010 (paperback, 2011) ISBN 978-1-84331-800-2. [preview]

EDITED VOLUMES:

Arthur, Paul Longley, and Geoffrey Bolton, eds. Voices of the West End. Perth: Western Australian Museum Publishing, forthcoming in 2012.

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18. Ed. Melanie Nolan (General Editor) and Paul Longley Arthur (Deputy General Editor). Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, forthcoming in 2012.

Arthur, Paul Longley, ed. "Recovering Lives." Special issue, Life Writing 8, no. 1 (2011). [preview]

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

Arthur, Paul Longley. “Curating Digital Collections Within and Beyond the Museum.” In Museum Transfigurations: Curation and Co-creation of Collections in the Digital Age, ed. Chiel van den Akker and Susan Lêgene. New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming in 2012. 

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Toward a Global Digital History." In Global Media, Culture, and Identity: Theory, Cases, and Approaches, ed. Rohit Chopra and Radhika Gajjala, 175–87. New York: Routledge, 2011. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Unearthing the Past: Dwikozy Revisited," in "Recovering Lives," ed. Paul Longley Arthur, special issue, Life Writing 8, no. 1 (2011): 101–14. doi: 10.1080/14484528.2011.542643. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online," Auto/Biography Studies 24, no.1 (2010): 74–92. doi: 10.1353/abs.2009.0012. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Trauma Online: Public Exposure of Personal Grief and Suffering," in "History, Memory and Trauma," ed. Joseph M. Gabriel, special issue, Traumatology 15, no. 4 (2009): 65–75. doi: 10.1177/1534765609350781. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Saving Lives: Digital Biography and Life Writing." In Save As… Digital Memories, ed. Joanne Garde-Hansen, Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading, 44–59. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Virtual Strangers: e-Research and the Humanities," Australian Cultural History 27, no. 1 (2009): 47–59. doi: 10.1080/07288430902877882. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Digital Fabric, Narrative Threads: Patchwork Designs on History," in "Quiltworks", ed. Lisa Graley, special issue, Interdisciplinary Humanities 25, no. 2 (2008): 106–20. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Pixelated Memory: New Media Responses to Trauma and Crisis," in "Trauma," ed. Josko Petkovic, Mick Broderick and Jenny De Reuck, special issue, IM Interactive Media 4 (2008): 1–19. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Exhibiting History: The Digital Future," reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia 3, no. 1 (2008): 33–50. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Participating in the Past: Recording Lives in Digital Environments," in "History Experiments," ed. John Frow and Katrina Schlunke, special issue, Cultural Studies Review 14, no. 1 (2008): 187–202. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Fictions of Encounter: Eighteenth Century Imaginary Voyages to the Antipodes," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49, no. 3 (2008): 197–210. doi: 10.1353/ecy.0.0014. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Digital Lives: Oral Histories, Community Building and Experimental Media," Issues in Writing 17, nos. 1–2 (2007–8): 118–42. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Antipodean Myths Transformed: The Evolution of Australian Identity," History Compass 5, no. 6 (2007): 1862–78. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00467.x. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Experimental Histories and Digital Interactivity: Evaluating Three User-Navigable Texts," EnterText 6, no. 3 (2006–7): 176–203. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Hypermedia History: Changing Technologies of Representation for Recording and Portraying the Past," in "Revisioning History," InterCulture special issue 3, no. 3 (2006): 1–25. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Multimedia and the Narrative Frame: Navigating Digital Histories," in "Traversing Narrative Media: Histories, Identities, Futures," ed. Allan Cameron, special issue, Refractory 9 (2006): http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2006/07/04/multimedia-and-the-narrative-frame-navigating-digital-histories-paul-arthur/. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Interactive Histories: Reflecting on Current Issues in the Database History Field," in "Online Archives and Virtual Collections," ed. Denise Meredyth and David Prater, special issue, Southern Review 38, no. 1 (2005): 8–17. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Capturing the Antipodes." In Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism, edited by Graeme Harper, 205–18. London: Continuum, 2002. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Australia 2000: Visions of the Future." In Start Trek and Endgame, ed. David Buchbinder, 23–31. Perth: Black Swan Press, 2002. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Imaginary Voyages and the Romantic Imagination," in "Fresh Cuts," ed. Elizabeth Ruinard and Elspeth Tilley, special issue, Journal of Australian Studies 67 (2001): 186–95. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Imaginary Conquests," in "Imaginary Homelands: The Dubious Cartographies of Australian Identity," ed. Richard Nile and Michael Williams, special issue, Journal of Australian Studies 23, no. 61 (1999): 136–42. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Fantasies of the Antipodes." In Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry, ed. Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan, 37–46. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. [preview]

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. [preview]

PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Future Humanities: Technology and Transformation." In Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2009 Conference Proceedings, 2436–60. Honolulu: Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 2009.

FURTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Arthur, Paul Longley. Review of The Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, by Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard, eds. Studies in Western Australian History 27 (2011): pages tba. [read]

Arthur, Paul Longley (as coordinating author for the Understanding Cultures and Communities Expert Working Group). 2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure Discussion Paper, 45–53. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, 2011. http://www.innovation.gov.au/Science/ResearchInfrastructure/
Documents/2011_Roadmap_Discussion_Paper.pdf. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. "Editorial: Lives Recovered and Reclaimed," in "Recovering Lives," ed. Paul Longley Arthur, special issue, Life Writing 8, no. 1 (2011): 1–3. doi: DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2011.542320. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. Review of museum exhibition Exploration & Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas, curated by Michelle Hetherington, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 15 Sept 2010–6 Feb 2011. ReCollections: The Journal of the National Museum of Australia 6, no.1 (2011): http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/
vol_6_no_1/exhibition_reviews/exploration_and_endeavour. [preview]

Arthur, Paul Longley. “Making Them Live: The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online,” History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society 106 (December 2010): 7–8. [read]

Arthur, Paul Longley. Review of Gallipoli: The First Day, Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary website, Creative Director/ Executive Producer Sam Doust, http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli. History Australia 7, no. 1 (2010): 14.1–14.2. [read]

Arthur, Paul Longley. “Life Sentences,” ANU Reporter (Summer 2010): 8. [read]

Arthur, Paul Longley. Teaching and Learning Guide for “Antipodean Myths Transformed: The Evolution of Australian Identity,” History Compass 6, no. 5 (2008): 1394–99. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00547.x. [preview]

CONVENING OF MAJOR CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Co-convenor, Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) (with Prof Gillian Whitlock and Assoc/Prof Rosanne Kennedy), Canberra, 17-20 July 2012. Presented by the Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery.
http://www.iaba2012.com

Co-convenor, Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting, the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (with Dr Katherine Bode), Canberra, 28-30 March 2012. Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, with the support of the College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University.
http://www.aa-dh.org

Convenor, Digital Humanities workshop and Digital Humanities: International Perspectives public lectures by Prof Ray Siemens (Canada) and Dr Patrik Svensson (Sweden), sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, 22 March 2011. This workshop led to the establishment in 2011 of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities. Approx 50 invited delegates.
http://www.humanities.org.au/PolicyResearch/Research/
DigitalHumanities.aspx
[click here for presentation]

Convenor, Life of Information symposium, Canberra, 24 September 2010. Sponsored by the National Centre of Biography, with support from the School of History and College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. Approx 150 delegates.
http://ncb.anu.edu.au/Life_of_Information

Co-convenor, Recovering Lives conference (with Prof Cassandra Pybus and Dr Caroline Turner), Canberra, 6-8 August 2008. Hosted by the Humanities Research Centre, the conference was held at Old Canberra House, Australian National University, and at the National Museum of Australia. Associated exhibitions were held at the Drill Hall Gallery and School of Art Gallery. Approx 100 delegates.
http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/recoveringlives/index.php

SELECT PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

KEYNOTE:

July 2007 – ‘Going Digital: e-Research and the Humanities Research Revolution’. Keynote speaker, inaugural e-Research Australasia conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
http://www.eresearch.edu.au/arthur
[click here for presentation]

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July 2011 – 'Networking, Finding Opportunities and Connections'. Presenter/session chair, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) inaugural symposium, Networking the Humanities, hosted by Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Royal Institution of Australia, Science Exchange, Adelaide, Australia.
http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/firth/firth-conferences/achrc-conference

June 2011 – 'Disaster Narratives in the Digital Age'. Conference paper, 9^th International Conference, New Directions in the Humanities, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
http://h11.cgpublisher.com/proposals/258/index_html

May 2011 – 'Re-designing the Australian Dictionary of Biography online'. Seminar paper, Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

May 2011 – 'Unearthing the Past: Dwikozy Revisited'. Conference paper, Trajectories of (Be)longing: Europe in Life Writing conference, Tallinn University, Tallin, Estonia.
http://iabaeurope2011.edicypages.com/en

May 2011 – 'Australian Dictionary of Biography and Obituaries Australia'. Invited lecture, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China (hosted by Prof Xu Dejin).

May 2011 – 'Australian Dictionary of Biography and Obituaries Australia'. Invited lecture, World Auto/Biography Centre, Peking University, Beijing, China (hosted by Prof Zhao Baisheng).

March 2011 – Presenter/convenor, Digital Humanities workshop and Digital Humanities: International Perspectives public lectures by Prof Ray Siemens (Canada) and Dr Patrik Svensson (Sweden), sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Australian National University, Canberra.
http://www.humanities.org.au/PolicyResearch/Research/
DigitalHumanities.aspx

September 2010 – Presenter/convenor, Life of Information symposium, Australian National University, Canberra.
http://ncb.anu.edu.au/Life_of_Information

September 2010 – Presenter/facilitator, Flexibly Digital forum, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra.
http://rsha.anu.edu.au/events/friday-forum-flexibly-digital

September 2010 – 'Digital Biography'. Seminar paper, Using Lives workshop, convened by Dr Nicholas Brown. National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/event/using-lives-postgraduate-workshop-biography

August 2010 – Public lecture/launch for Frank Hurley's Antarctica, by Helen Ennis. Book launched by Paul Arthur. National Library of Australia, Canberra.
http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/media/Helen-Ennis.mp3
[click here for presentation]

July 2010 – 'Trauma Tourism'. Conference paper, Life Writing and Intimate Publics, the 7^th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association, University of Sussex, UK.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/1-7-1-11-2.html

June 2010 – Public lecture/launch for Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837, by Paul Longley Arthur. Author presentation and in conversation session with Emeritus Prof Geoffrey Bolton, Prof Melanie Nolan and Prof Tom Griffiths. Book launched by Prof Geoffrey Bolton. National Library of Australia, Canberra.
http://ncb.anu.edu.au/newsletter/book-launch-virtual-voyages

October 2009 – 'Digital History in Australia and New Zealand: An International Comparison'. Symposium paper, Contemporary History in the Digital Age symposium, 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, New Jersey, 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, Boston, USA.
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6

March 2009 – 'Writing History with New Media'. Seminar paper, HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden.
http://stream.humlab.umu.se/index.php?streamName=writinghistory
[click here for presentation]

January 2009 – 'Future Humanities: Technology and Transformation'. Conference paper, 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, 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, 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, Future Humanities, the 39th Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
http://symposium.humanities.org.au/2007

October 2007 – 'Digital Humanities and Life-Logging: Strategies for Historians'. Seminar paper, Department of History, 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, Canberra.

September 2006 – 'Directions in Digital History Research'. Seminar paper, 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'. Seminar paper, David Nichol Smith Seminar in 18th Century Studies, National Library of Australia/Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

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 of Technology, Perth, Australia.

August 2001 – 'The Politics of Aboriginal Sovereignty in Australia'. Seminar paper, interdisciplinary forum facilitated by Henry Reynolds, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, 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, University of Sydney, Australia.

April 1998 – 'Capturing the Antipodes: Imaginary Travel and Romantic Representation'. Conference paper, Re-Orienting Romanticism conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

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, Australia.

June 1997 – 'Fantasies of the Australian Interior'. Conference paper, Australian Studies Travelling Conference, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

February 1997 – 'Posing with La Perouse: Europe Imagines the Antipodes'. Conference paper, Australasian Modern British History Association conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.

CURRENT TEACHING

COURSES:

Digital History and Biography (HIST8003) – Graduate coursework, School of History, Australian National University (elective course, Master in Biographical Research and Writing, scheduled 2012/13)
http://studyat.anu.edu.au/programs/7152XMBIO;overview.html

The Historian’s Craft: Approaches, Themes and Methods (HIST8101) – Graduate coursework, School of History, Australian National University
http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/HIST8101;details.html

Australian Dictionary of Biography Internship (HIST8013) – Graduate coursework, School of History, Australian National University
http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/HIST8013;details.html

Using Lives workshop, convened by Dr Nicholas Brown – Graduate residential workshop, Australian National University/National Museum of Australia, Canberra
http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/event/using-lives-postgraduate-workshop-biography

PhD SUPERVISION:

Supervisor/Panel Chair – Catherine Akeroyd, ‘Terra Australis as a Framework for Knowledge: A Cartographic/Iconological Study’ (2011–)

Advisor/Panel member – Brett Goodin, ‘Republic of Liberty: A Collective Biography of Barbary Captives in the New Republic, 1785-1840’ (2011–)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

COMMITTEES AND BOARDS:

University

Research Committee, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University (2011–)
http://cass.anu.edu.au/committees/home

Chair, e-Research Subcommittee of the Research Committee, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University (Member, 2010–)

School of History representative, Visiting Fellowship Committee, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2011–)
http://rsss.anu.edu.au/research/visiting-fellows

History Board of Study, to assess and rank doctoral scholarship applicants in the Graduate Research Field in History (2010-11)

External

Chair, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) (2011–)
http://aa-dh.org

Executive Committee, International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) (2010–)
http://www.theiaba.org

Advisory Board, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) (2011–)
http://achrc.net

Coordinator, working party for website development, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) (2010–11)
http://achrc.net

Advisory Board, South Seas online, National Library of Australia (2005).
http://southseas.nla.gov.au

GOVERNMENT ADVISORY:

Expert Working Group, Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure, Understanding Cultures and Communities capability area, Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (2011)
http://www.innovation.gov.au/Science/ResearchInfrastructure/
Documents/ExpertWorkingGroups_ListofMembers.pdf

Advisor to the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Expert Working Group, National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Roadmap (2008).

REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT:

Expert Assessor of International Standing (INTREADER), Australian Research Council (2008–)

Assessment Panel, National Film and Sound Archive Scholars and Artists in Residence 2012 Research Fellowships (2011)
http://nfsa.gov.au/research/research-fellowships

eResearch Australasia Program Committee (2010 and 2011)
http://conference.eresearch.edu.au

Review Panel, Review of Bachelor of Arts degree program, University of Notre Dame, Australia (2007)

Peer review of proposals/manuscripts for publishers, and for journals including Australian Historical Studies, History Australia, History Compass, Journal of Australian Studies, Life Writing, reCollections, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

EDITORIAL:

Series Editor, Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age book series, Anthem Press (London and New York) (2009–)
http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/subject-areas/browse-by-series/academic-and-professional-publishing/anthem-scholarship-in-the-digital-age.html

Editorial Committee, Australian National University e-Press ANU.LIVES book series in biography (2008–)
http://ncb.anu.edu.au/anulives

GRANTS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

AUSTRALIA:

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH)
http://aa-dh.org

Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC)
http://achrc.net

Australian Historical Association (AHA)
http://www.theaha.org.au

Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
http://asaliterature.com

Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)
http://www.csaa.asn.au

INTERNATIONAL:

American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)
http://theaahc.org

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
http://www.ach.org

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
http://www.allc.org

Biographers International Organization
http://www.biographersinternational.org

International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
http://www.inasa.org

International Auto/Biography Association (IABA)
http://www.theiaba.org

International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW) (Affiliate)
http://istw-travel.org

Research Centre of Media, Memory and Community, University Of Gloucestershire, UK (External member)
http://www.glos.ac.uk/research/mac/mmc/Pages/externalmembers.aspx

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI)
http://www.sdh-semi.org

4humanities – Advocating for the Humanities
http://humanistica.ualberta.ca

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