Dr Christy Collis
Australian Studies Centre, The University of Queensland
International Linkages
Christy Collis and Kathryn Yusoff, Royal Holloway, London. Current UQ-funded grant for collaborative Antarctic Cultural Studies project. Project: "Antarctic Spaces: A Comparative Study of Australian and British Cultural Geographies on the Ice."
Christy Collis and Quentin Stevens, University College of London. Current UQ-funded grant for collaborative Antarctic Cultural Studies work. Project: "Cold Colonies: Spatialities of Antarctica's Built Environment".
Publications
Chapters in Books
"Vertical Body/Horizontal World: Sir John Franklin and Narratives of Arctic Space." The Body in the Library: Essays on Post-Coloniality and Corporeality. Ed. Simon Ryan and Leigh Dale. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 225-36.
Refereed Articles
"Architectures for a Sinking Settler: Jane Jacobs and Ken Gelder's Uncanny Australia and Roslyn Haynes's Seeking the Centre." Meridian, forthcoming 2004
"Mawson's Hut: Emptying Postcolonial Antarctica." Journal of Australian Studies 63 (1999): 22-9.
"Exploring Emptiness: Producing Australian Desert Space." Beyond the Divide 2.1 (1999): 38-48.
Conference Proceedings
"Modern Colonialism in Antarctica: The Coldest Battlefield of the Cold War." The 21st Century City: Past/Present/Future Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference 2004. with Quentin Stevens. Forthcoming 2004.
"Living in the Cold Light of Reason: Colonial Settlements in Antarctica." Progress: The Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. with Quentin Stevens. Ed. Maryam Gusheh and Naomi Stead. Sydney: Society of Architectural Historians, 2003. 291-7.
"Exploring Tracks: Writing and Living Desert Space." Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1997. Ed. Jennifer McDonnell and Michael Jeeves. ASAL: 1998. 179-84.
Current Research Interests
Antarctica
cultural geography
spatial history
Australian studies
critical geopolitics