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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 President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, serves on the steering committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, the international executive council of centerNet and the executive committee of the International Auto/Biography Association, and is a member of 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 (2012, with Geoffrey Bolton). He is editor of the Anthem book series Scholarship in the Digital Age (Anthem Press, London and New York). Click here for Paul's CV.