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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