Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Ned Curthoys joined the discipline of English and Cultural 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 early research focused on the revival of the humanist tradition of classical rhetoric in contemporary literary criticism, philosophy, and political theory. More recently he has researched and published on 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 discussed the fiction and political activism of Albert Camus in the context of the Algerian war. 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 on contemporary manifestations of the Bildungsroman or novel of education.
Roles and responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies
Honours Coordinator in English and Literary Studies
Deputy Head of Education (Curriculum) in the School of Humanities
Future research
Researching the critical and cultural legacy of Hannah Arendt's concept of the 'banality of evil' and its effects on the genre of the Bildungsroman.
Richard Rorty and pragmatism as a neo-humanism.
Ensuring the right to have rights in a world defined by statelessness and human trafficking.
Funding overview
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.
Previous positions
Advisory Editorial Board
Australian Humanities Review
Australian Humanities Review
Teaching overview
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
ENGL4104 Cinema and Cultural Studies
Teaching Awards
FABLE Teaching Awards 2019: Excellence in Teaching in the category of Lecturers.
Research
Holocaust themed literature and film with a focus on the representation legacy of Arendt's notion of 'the banality of evil'; comparative literature studies with a focus on the work of Edward Said, Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer; the thought of Hannah Arendt; eighteenth century intellectual history, German Jewish studies from Moses Mendelssohn to Hannah Arendt; Jewish studies, Israel/Palestine; pragmatism, the Bildungsroman.
Languages
Read German and French
Keywords
- Hannah Arendt
- Humanism
- The Holocaust
- Children And Young Adult Literature
- Representation Of Violence
- Postcolonial and diaspora studies
- Literary and cinematic representations of the Holocaust
- Critical theory
- Literature and philosophy
- Cinema
- Eighteenth century and enlightenment studies
- German and German Jewish studies
- European intellectual history
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Hannah Arendt
Arts & Humanities
Holocaust
Arts & Humanities
Banality of Evil
Arts & Humanities
Palestine
Arts & Humanities
Conception
Arts & Humanities
Human Being
Arts & Humanities
Palestinians
Arts & Humanities
Perpetrators
Arts & Humanities
Network
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Research Output 2007 2018
The Politics of Representation in Joe Sacco's Palestine
Curthoys, E. J. & Nabizadeh, G., 2018, The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary. Griffiths, G. & Mead, P. (eds.). Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, p. 201-220 20 p. (Studies in World Literature; vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Politics of Representation
Palestine
Palestinians
Graphic Novel
Education
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
Curthoys, N., 4 Oct 2018, In : American Historical Review. 123, 4, p. 1286-1287 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic: Reading Through the Iron Curtain
Curthoys, N., May 2017, In : Australian Humanities Review. 61, p. 181-185 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Evaluating risk in perpetrator narratives: resituating Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones as historical fiction
Curthoys, E. J., 16 Apr 2017, In : Textual Practice. 31, 3, p. 457-475 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Holocaust
Historical Fiction
Perpetrators
Historical Novel
Ethical Criticism
Reviewing the Middle East
Curthoys, N. J., 2016, In : Arena Journal. 45/46, p. 304-313 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
FABLE Research Accelerator Scheme Pilot Award
Ned Curthoys (Recipient), 15 Sep 2018
Prize: Other distinction
interdisciplinary research
research project
funding
Activities 2017 2017
- 1 Public lecture, debate or seminar
Remembering Jane Austen
Ned Curthoys (Speaker)26 Jul 2017
Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar