Ned Curthoys

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 the literary interests of the political theorist Hannah Arendt, and co-edited a book on the intellectual and political legacy of 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, paperback edition in 2016.

Key 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.