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
Research expertise 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
- Bildungsroman
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Research Output
The Construction of an Active Reader in two Holocaust themed novels for children: Hitler’s Daughter (1999) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) as Bildungsroman
Curthoys, N., 11 Jun 2020, In : Children's Literature in Education: an international quarterly. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Theories of the Refugee, after Hannah Arendt
Curthoys, N., 12 Jan 2020, Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities. Cox, E., Durrant, S., Farrier, D., Stonebridge, L. & Woolley, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 36-49 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
'Edward Said'
Curthoys, N., 22 Feb 2018, Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. O'Brien, E. (ed.). Oxford University Press, 17 p. (Oxford Bibliographies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Review of 'The Trial that Never Ends: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in Retrospect. Edited by Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer'
Curthoys, N., 2018, In : Arendt Studies. 2, 2018, p. 255-261 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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
Prizes
FABLE Research Accelerator Scheme Pilot Award
Curthoys, Ned (Recipient), 15 Sep 2018
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
- 1 Public lecture, debate or seminar
Remembering Jane Austen
Ned Curthoys (Speaker)
26 Jul 2017
Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar