Will Christie

Biography

A graduate of the universities of Sydney and Oxford, Emeritus Professor Will Christie was Head of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University until his retirement in 2021, and before that Professor of English Literature and Pro-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. He has been founding president of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (2010-2015), Head of the English Section at the Academy (2015-2017), and Director of Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers and Centres (2017-2021). His publications include Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (2006), awarded the NSW Premier’s Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008, The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain (2009), Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life (2014), and The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays (2016), and he is editor (with Jock Macleod and Peter Denney) of Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals (2019) and of The Emotions in Liberal Writing, c.1790-c.1920 (2025), and (with Angela Dunstan and Q. S. Tong) of Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935 (2020). His current research includes liberalism and the emotions in the nineteenth century, a biography of Edinburgh Review editor, Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850), public lecturing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and cultural relations between China and the West in the Qing period. He has been General Editor of the series ‘China and the West in the Modern World’ for Sydney University Press since 2016.