Paula Jane Byrne

Dr Paula Jane Byrne is Adjunct in humanities at Western Sydney University. She has previously taught at UNSW, Macquarie University, Murdoch University and ANU, and held research positions at Sydney University, ANU, Australian National Library and niversity of New England. In 2024, she was was Visiting Scholar at the State Library of New South Wales. Paula's interests are in colonising mentalities, law and the courts in the colonies, and she has published widely in these fields, including Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales 1810–1830 (1993) and Judge Advocate Ellis Bent: Letters and Diaries 1809–1811 (2012).