Paul Arthur is a research fellow at the Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, and an adjunct research fellow of the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University. In 2007 he was a research fellow for three months at the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia. Having been drawn to the digital history field after completing a PhD in eighteenth-century literary history, his research focuses on how new technologies are transforming the way history is recorded and studied. He has published widely on digital humanities topics and also on Australian cultural history.