Chris Lee

Overview

Current Work

Chris is currently collaborating with Lara Lamb (USQ) on a project which repatriates the photographs and films of Frank Hurley among the peoples of the Gulf region of Papua New Guinea and a critical biography of the Australian writer Henry Lawson. He is also working with Claire Kennedy on a study of Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Italy to Australia and Japan.

Expertise Keywords

Australian Culture
Literature
Postcolonialism
Public memory

Subject Area Codes

Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
Cultural Studies
Literary Studies

Country Affiliations

Australia

Research Publications and Outputs

Recent Publications

Publications: 16 (Other: 16)

Lee, C. (2018). Postcolonial Heritage and Settler Well-Being.
Lee, C. (2017). The Beast in the Machine: Modernity, Aviation and the Legacies of Colonialism in Roger McDonaldⳠSlipstream. Journal of Australian Studies, 41(4), 435–449.
Goodall, J., & Lee, C. (2015). Trauma and Public Memory. Trauma and Public Memory.
Goodall, J., & Lee, C. (2015). Conclusion [Trauma and Public Memory]. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 207–210).
Goodall, J., & Lee, C. (2015). Interview with Norman Fry, Disaster Co-ordinator for the Toowoomba Regional Council at the Time of the 2011 Floods. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 103–108).
Goodall, J., & Lee, C. (2015). Introduction [Trauma and Public Memory]. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 1–20).
Lee, C. (2015). But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?: Sacrifice as a Social Fact in the Public Memory of War. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 21–36).
Lee, C. (2015). Interview with Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 115–130).
Lee, C., & Goodall, J. (2015). Interview with Clinical Psychologist Ross Anderson. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 87–93).
Lee, C., & Goodall, J. (2015). Interview with Councillor Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee Following the Lockyer Valley Floods in South East Queensland, and Senior Recovery Officer Sue Hewitt. In Trauma and Public Memory (pp. 109–114).
Lee, C. (2014). “Literary Adaptation and Market Value: Encounters with the Public in the Early Career of Roger McDonald.” Queensland Review, 21(1), 39–48.
Lee, C. (2014). Bulletin. In B. Griffen-Foley (Ed.), A Companion to the Australian Media (pp. 76–77). North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Lee, C. (2013). 1935: Literary Possibilities of Flight: Bill Taylors Pacific Flight. In Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures, 1935-2010 (pp. 1–7). Australia: Monash University Publishing.
Lee, C. (2011). The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941. (R. D. and C. Lee, Ed.) The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941. London, New Delhi and New York: Anthem.
Dixon, R., & Lee, C. (2011). Introduction [The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941]. In R. D. and C. Lee (Ed.), The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941 (pp. xi–xxxviii). United Kingdom: Anthem Press.
Lee, C. (2011). “Shapely Experience” and the Limits of “Late Colonial Transcendentalism”: The Portrait of the Artist as Soldier in Roger McDonald’s 1915’. JASAL, 11(2), 1–8.

Funded Griffith Research

Engagement and Impact

Learning and Teaching

Current and Past Courses

Dangerous Pleasures (LHS1016)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Trimester 1, 2019.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2018.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Reading Fiction (2042HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Storytellers: Reading Fiction (2142LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 2, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Convenor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Teacher, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2017.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Intensive, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Gold Coast Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Ideas. Issues and Inquiry (1061LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Intensive, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
Texts and Traditions (1016HUM)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2015.
DangerousPleasures:Lit.Studies (1016LHS)

Supervisor, In Person, Nathan Campus, Semester 1, 2015.

Research by Higher Degree Supervision or Scholarship

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Supervision Overview

I am currently supervising a PhD on the international connections of African American and Indigenous Australian poetry during the civil rights movements in the later part of the twentieth century, and another on an oral history of South Sea Islander peoples in Australia.

My most recent student completion was Gabrielle Rowen Clark's PhD on Food and the Modernist Aesthetic in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Gabrielle was awarded her Degree with Excellence and was a Chancellors Medalist in 2017.

Background

Bio

Chris’s doctoral research investigated the relationship between scientific, medical and literary representations of mental illness in the nineteenth century. Since then he has published widely on postcolonial and Australian literary culture developing a special interest in the social life of literature. His areas of research focus include: Public Memory, Representations of War, Victorian, Australian and Postcolonial literatures, Settler Colonialism, Cultural Mythologies, the History of Criticism, and the History of the Book. Chris has thirty-two years teaching experience across six universities. This experience includes extensive course and program development through undergraduate, honours, masters and doctoral levels and in external, hybrid and on campus modes. He is the recipient of teaching awards at the Faculty and University level and he has a strong record of policy and planning development in relation to postgraduate training and staff development at ECR and mid-career level. A former national President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and a founding editor of its internationally refereed journal JASAL, he served as a Centre Director from 2005-2010, the Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts from 2006-2013 and the inaugural Chair of the CRN funded University's Research Leadership Development Program at USQ from 2012-2014.  From 2014 to 2016 he served as Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at the Nathan and Gold Coast campuses of Griffith University. Chris has a special interest in strategic policy, staff mentoring, and leadership development.

Education and Training

PhD Doctor Of Philosophy, University of Queensland 1988 - 1992
BA Bachelor Of Arts With Honours, University of Queensland 1982 - 1986
Dip App Sc Diploma in Applied Science, QIT 1979 - 1981

Editorial roles

Reviews Editor, Australian Literary Studies 2017 -
Editor, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 2002 - 2004
Editor, Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts 1995 - 2003

Professional memberships

FQA Fellow, Queensland Academy of the Arts and Sciences 2016 -

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