Assoc Prof Will Christie
DPhil Oxf. BA
Associate Professor
Room S362
A20 John Woolley Building
+61 2 9351 2374
Research areas
- British Romantic literature and culture
- Poetry and poetics
Research group
ARC Project 2008 - 2010
A Critical Investigation into the Life and Writings of Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Current projects
- A study of the Edinburgh Review in early nineteenth-century literary culture
- The life and correspondence of Francis Jeffrey and Thomas Carlyle
- 'Eating Their Words': a study of literary influence
- A literary biography of Dylan Thomas
- The novels of Jane Austen
Journal Editing
- Foundation editor Down Under Milk Wood, The Newsletter of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia, since 1998
- Sole editor of Literature and Aesthetics, The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (2001-2);
co-editor with E. E. Benitez (2003-4) Lloyd Reinhardt (2000), and G. L. Little (1997-8)
Contributions to the Profession
- Member of the British Association for Romantic Studies
- Member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia
- Member of the Byron Society of Australia
- Member of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia (president 1998-2002, 2004-5; currently vice-president)
Selected publications
Books
- (ed.), The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008).
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, Hants, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
- Under Mulga Wood (Sydney: Mumford and More, 2004)
Articles and Chapters on Books
- “Superflux and Silence in Shakespeare’s King Lear”, Sydney Studies in English, XXXIII (2007), pp. 1-18.
- “The Story of Samuel Rogers and His Poetry”, in Bulletin of the Byron Society in Australia, vol. XXXI (2007), pp. 7-27.
- “Coleridge and Wordsworth in Pandaemonium”, Sydney Studies in English, XXXI (2005), pp. 109-20.
- “‘HIMSELF, ALONE’: Coleridge in Isolation”, Metaphor, 3 (2005), pp. 15-25.
- “Essays, Newspapers, and Magazines”, in Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 426-444.
- “State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor’s Modest Proposal” in Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing 1750-1850, ed. E. J. Clery, Caroline Franklin, and Peter Garside (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 218-36.
- “A Recent History of Poetic Difficulty”, English Literary History LXVII (2000), pp. 539-564.
- “The Critical Metamorphoses of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Sydney Studies in English XXV (1999), pp. 47-82.
- “Going Public: Print Lords Byron and Brougham”, Studies in Romanticism, XXXVIII (Fall 1999), pp. 443-75.
- twenty six entries in Iain McCalman (gen. ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (Oxford University Press, 1999.)
- “Running with the English Hare and Hunting with the Scotch Bloodhounds”, The Byron Journal XXV (1997), pp. 23-31
- “Byron and Francis Jeffrey”, The Byron Journal, XXV (1997), pp. 32-43
- “Pride, Politics, and Prejudice”, Nineteenth-Century Contexts XX, no.3 (Winter 1997), pp. 313-334.
- “The Printer's Devil in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria”, Prose Studies XIX, no.1 (April 1996), pp. 37-54.
- “Reading Romanticism”, Literature and Aesthetics , VI (October 1996), pp. 120-31.
- "Despondency and Madness": Shelley in Conversation with Byron in Julian and Maddalo", The Byron Journal XXI (1993), pp. 43-60.
- "Francis Jeffrey's Associationist Aesthetics”, British Journal of Aesthetics XXXIII, no. 3 (July 1993), p. 257-269.
- “Wordsworth and the Language of Nature”, The Wordsworth Circle, XIV, 1 (Winter 1983), pp. 40-7.
Areas of teaching and Specific Topics
- British Romantic Literature, 1780-1830
- Authority and Anxiety: Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Jane Austen and her Contemporaries
- Critical Theory and Literary Practice
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Novel into Film