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Professor Chris Lee

Name :	Professor Chris Lee
Position :	Professor (English Literature) & Associate Dean (Research)
Section :	Faculty of Arts Faculty of Arts Administration
Office :	Q209
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1045
Extension :	1045
E-mail :
Qualifications :	DipAppSc QIT BA(Hons), PhD Qld

Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/leec
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Professional Memberships

Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL); International Australian Studies Association (InASA); Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA); Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA)

Research Interests

Australian Literary Culture, Public Memory and Popular Culture, the Representation of War, Postcolonial Literature, and the History of Criticism.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :
The Diaries of Frank Hurley. London, Delhi and New York: Anthem P, 2011. (Co-edited with Robert Dixon). v-xlii, 1-249. ‘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) ‘“The Country of Unspoken Feeling”: An Interview with Jean Kent.’ Antipodes (December 2009): 47-51.

Most notable :
City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination. Perth: Curtin University Books, 2004. Turning the Century: Writing of the 1890s. Australian Authors Series. St.Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999 Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. (edited with Delys Bird and Robert Dixon).

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

ENL 1000 Introduction to Literature
ENL 1001 Australian Stories
ENL 3004 The Literary Canon: How to Read Great Books
ENL 3005 The Contemporary Australian Novel 1970-2010
ENL 4012 Transforming Classics

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 25 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Director, Public Memory Research Cluster
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts