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Dr Christina Alt

Dr Christina Alt

BA Ott., MA Qu., DPhil Oxf.
University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow

+61 2 9036 7642
Room N426, John Woolley Building A20

My research focuses on historical intersections between literature and science. My current project examines the discourse surrounding ecology as it emerged as a scientific discipline in the early twentieth century and the impact of this discourse on modernist representations of nature. This expands on my earlier work which traced late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century developments in the life sciences and popular perceptions of these developments as a basis for understanding Virginia Woolf's responses to established and emergent approaches to the study of nature.

Research Areas

  • Modernist literature
  • Literature and science
  • Ecocriticism

Current Projects

Early Ecology and Literary Modernism (University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010-2013)

Publications

Books
  • Alt, C 2010, Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Journal Articles
  • Alt, C 2010, Scientific Analogies and Literary Experiments: Woolf and the Life Sciences, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Book Chapters
  • Alt, C 2010, Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature, Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice, Palgrave MacMillan, United States, 121-134
  • Alt, C 2007, Pests and Pesticides: Exploring the Boundaries of Woolf's Environmentalism, Woolfian Boundaries: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Clemson University Press, Clemson, 93-99
  • Alt, C 2006, Virginia Woolf and the 'Naturalist-Novelist', Virginia Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Clemson University Press, Clemson, 65-70
Conference Proceedings
  • Alt, C 2009, Houses of Fiction, Communities of Words: Conceptions of Literature as Environment in Woolf's Essays, 19th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf 2009, Fordham University, United States
  • Alt, C 2008, Virginia Woolf's Rewriting of Love's Creation, 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf 2008, University of Denver, United States
  • Alt, C 2006, Pests and Pesticides: Woolf, Eleanor Ormerod, and Applied Entomology, 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf 2006, Clemson University, United States
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