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 Professor Christopher Lee

My research interests include:

• nineteenth and twentieth century Australian literary culture, with a special interest in the work and reputation of Henry Lawson

• rural and regional mythologies

• the political uses of cultural association, particularly where they are located through discourses of place and memory, race and class, regionalism and globalisation

• the history of Australian literary criticism

• cultural representations of war and conflict; trauma studies

• the contemporary Australian novel, with a special interest in the work of Roger McDonald

• History of the Book

Select Publications

City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, 2004.

The Diaries of Frank Hurley. London, New Delhi, New York: Anthem P, 2011. (Co-edited with Robert Dixon). v-xlii, 1-259.

Australian Regional Editor (with Ken Goodwin). Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures In English. 3 Vols. Revised Second edition. Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly, eds. London: Routledge, 2005.

Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2003. (co-edited with Paul Adams).

Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. xxxviii + 401 pp (co-edited with Delys Bird and Robert Dixon).

Turning the Century: Writing of the 1890s. Australian Authors Series. St.Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999; 2010. xxviii + 390 pp.

Australian Literature and the Public Sphere. Canberra: ASAL, 1999. 224 pp. (co-edited with Alison Bartlett and Robert Dixon).

JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1 (2002); 2 (2003); 3 (2004) (with Barbara Milech).

Eucalyptus: A Journal of Australian Studies. University of Barcelona, Spain. 3 (2004) (with Brian Beasley).

Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts 1 (1994), 2 (1995), 3 (1996), 4 (1997), 5 (1998), 6 (2000), 7 (2001), 8 (2002), 9 (2003), 10 (2005) Toowoomba: U of Southern Queensland P. (with Brian Musgrove; Alison Bartlett 2001-2005; Laurie Johnson 2005 ).

Bug Hunt. Illustrated by Greg Coombes. Towoomba: Lifeline, 2004.

Smithy and the old bus: celebrity aviation and the possibilities of flight. Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures 1935-2010 . Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni, eds. Clayton, Vic: Monash University Press. (Forthcoming 2012)

‘Shapely Experience’ and the Limits of ‘Late Colonial Transcendentalism’: The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915’ JASAL 11.2 (2011).

‘Introduction.’ The Diaries of Frank Hurley. with Robert Dixon. London, New Delhi and New York: Anthem P, 2011. xi-xxxviii.

‘Introduction.’ Joe Wilson and His Mates, by Henry Lawson. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009.

 ‘“The Country of Unspoken Feeling”: An Interview with Jean Kent.’ Antipodes (December 2009):  47-51.

'"Greeks and Moderns": The Search for Culture in the Official History of Australia in The War of 1914-1918.' Australian Literary Studies 23.2 (2007): 106-120.

 ‘“War is not a Christian Mission”: Racial Invasion and Religious Crusade in H.S. Gullett’s Official History of the Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine.’ Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 6.2 (2007): 63-74. www.nla.gov.au 

“‘From Progress into Stand-Still Days’:  Literature, History and the Darling Downs”. By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland. Pat Buckridge and Belinda McKay, eds. St. Lucia: UQP, 2007: 111-139, 337-40.

'Settling in the Land of Wine and Honey:  Cultural Tourism, Local History and Some Australian Legends.’ Terra-Recognition: New Essays in Australian Studies. Journal of Australian Studies no 86 (2006): 47-60.

‘The Status of the Aborigine in the Writing of Henry Lawson: A Reconsideration.’ Latrobe Library Journal 70 (2002):  74-83.

‘An Uncultured Rhymer and His Cultural Critics: Henry Lawson, Class Politics and Colonial Literature.’ Victorian Poetry 40.1 (Spring 2002): 87-104.

 ‘Civic Virtue and the Monumental Pleasures of Poetic Work: Margaret Curran and Toowoomba’s Ladies Literary Society.’ Coppertales 7 (2001): 56-64.

‘Henry Lawson.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 230: Australian Literature 1788-1914. Selina Samuels, ed. Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, Woodbridge: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2000. 217-33.

 ‘A New National Library: The Australian Academy Editions’. Review Article. AUMLA 92 (1999): 121-130. 

‘‘Sinister Signs of Professionalism’?: Literary Gang Warfare in the 1950s and 60s.’ Australian Literature and the Public Sphere. Alison Bartlett, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee, ed. Canberra: ASAL, 1999. 87-93.