Research output per year
Research output per year
BA PhD Syd., Dr
The University of Western Australia (M204), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Ned Curthoys joined the discipline of English and Literary Studies at UWA in January 2014. Previously he was a research fellow in the School of Cultural Inquiry and an ARC post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, at the ANU. His research areas include historical fiction, postcolonial literature and theory, Holocaust studies and Holocaust themed literature, narrative theory and unreliable narrative, and the work of neo-humanist scholars such as Hannah Arendt, Ernst Cassirer, and Edward Said. He has also published on German Jewish literature and philosophy from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and has in interest in Enlightenment studies and intellectual history. His monograph The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation was published by Berghahn Books in September 2013. A paperback edition appeared in 2016. His current project is a monograph examining how the Bildungsroman or novel of self-formation has shaped contemporary historical fiction about WWII and the Holocaust.
Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies
Graduate Research Coordinator in the School of Humanities
English and Literary Studies representative on the School of Humanities Learning and Teaching Committee.
Researching the critical and cultural legacy of Hannah Arendt's concept of the 'banality of evil'.
Deliberation, judgment and its literary and cinematic representation.
Ensuring the right to have rights in a world beset by statelessness and human trafficking.
ARC Discovery (with APD), ‘Hannah Arendt, Émigré Intellectuals, and the Ethos of World Literature’ [DP0666225], $233,580, 2006-2009.
FABLE Research Accelerator Scheme pilot award, 'Ensuring the Right to have rights' interdisciplinary research project. $20,000, 2018.
Advisory Editorial Board, Australian Humanities Review: 2010-
Consulting Editor, Arendt Studies: March 2021- (now Associate Editor)
Courses Taught
ENGL2200 Jane Austen and her Legacy
ENGL 1401 Page and Screen
ENGL 1000 Global Literatures
ENGL 2401 Meaning and the Moving Image
ENGL2704 Transcultural Literatures
ENGL 3301 The European Individual
ENGL4102 Methodologies
ENGL4104 Cinema and Cultural Studies
Teaching Awards
FABLE Teaching Awards 2019: Excellence in Teaching in the category of Lecturers.
Holocaust themed literature and film
Contemporary Historical Fiction
Postcolonial literature and theory
Hannah Arendt
Graphic novels
Israel/Palestine
the Bildungsroman
Richard Rorty and pragmatism
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Curthoys, Ned (Recipient), Nov 2019
Prize: Award
Curthoys, Ned (Recipient), 15 Sep 2018
Prize: Other distinction
Ned Curthoys (Associate Editor)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Ned Curthoys (Speaker)
Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar