Professor Will Christie

DPhil Oxf. BA

+61 2 9351 2374
Room S343, John Woolley Building (A20)

Research Areas

(2011-2013) The Modern Athenians: Francis Jeffrey's Edinburgh Review in the Knowledge Economy of the Early Nineteenth Century
(2008-2010) A Critical Investigation into the Life and Writings of Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)

Member of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) (currently President)
Member of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
Member of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (SSLA) (currently Vice-President)
Member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA)
Member of the Byron Society of Australia
Member of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia (President 1998-2002, 2004-5; currently Vice-President)

Christie, W 2009, The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx, Pickering and Chatto, London & Brookfield, UK
Christie, W (ed.) 2008, The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Pickering and Chatto, London
Christie, W 2006, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life, Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire & New York [winner of the NSW Premier’s Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship 2008]

Christie, W 2009, Francis Jeffrey in Recent Whig Interpretations of Romantic Literary History, ELH, 76(3), 577-597
Christie, W 2009, In dialogue with the living and the dead: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, Sydney Studies in English, 35, 55-72
Christie, W 2009, 'Wars of the tongue' in post-war Edinburgh: on Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and its campaign against the Edinburgh Review, Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism, 15(2), 95-108
Christie, W 2008, Jane Austen and the John Murray Archive, Sensibilities, 36(June), 5-19
Christie, W 2007, Superflux and Silence in Shakespeare's King Lear, Sydney Studies in English, 33, 1-19
Christie, W 2007, The Story of Samuel Rogers and His Poetry, Bulletin of the Byron Society in Australia, 31, 7-26
Christie, W 2005, Coleridge and Wordsworth in Pandaemonium, Sydney Studies in English, 31, 109-120
Christie, W 2005, 'Himself, Alone': Coleridge in Isolation, Metaphor, 3, 15-25

Christie, W 2008, 'Trifling deviation': stage and screen versions of Mary Shelley's monster, Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 159-170
Christie, W 2005, Essays, Newspapers, and Magazines, Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, Oxford University Press, New York, 426-444

Christie, W 2010, 'The dialogue of the mind with itself': questing and questioning in Romantic poetry, Scoping the Syllabus: English Association English Teachers' Conference 2010, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 91-104
Christie, W 2009, Coleridge, Austen and the two Romanticisms, English Association English Teachers' Conference 2009, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 79-95
Christie, W 2008, 'First impressions; or, The Portrait': art and architecture in 'Pride and Prejudice', New Directions: the English Association English Teachers' Conference 2008, The English Association Sydney, Sydney, 61-73