Ned Curthoys

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 for supervision including the Bildungsroman and coming of age narratives, historical fiction, postcolonial literature and theory, Jewish studies, 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 was published by Berghahn Books in September 2013. A paperback edition appeared in 2016. His current monograph examines how the or novel of self-formation has shaped contemporary historical fiction about WWII and the Holocaust.