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"Coppertales"
a Journal of Rural Arts
Public Memory
Research Centre Director
Associate Professor Christopher Lee
Dip. App. Sc (QIT), BA Hons 1 (UQ), PhD (UQ).
(English Literature)Chris taught literature and cultural studies at Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland, before taking up a position at USQ in 1993.
He is currently working on the official representation of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Chris has published numerous articles, chapters and reviews on Australian literary culture, memory and identity, and the history of criticism. He is the author of City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination (2004), editor of Turning the Century: Writing of the 1890s (1999), and co-editor of Australian Literature and the Public Sphere (1998), Authority and Influence: Australian Literary Criticism 1950-2000 (2001), and Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment (2003).
Chris is one of the founding editors of Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts, the internationally refereed Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and was one of two Australian editors of the revised second edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English (2004). He is a former President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and is currently the Director of the Public Memory Research Centre and the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Southern Queensland.
