Emeritus Professor Christine Alexander
MA Canterbury; Ph.D. Cambridge; FAHA; FRSN.
Christine Alexander is Emeritus Scientia Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW. She has written extensively on the Bront毛s, especially on their early writings鈥攊ncluding a British Academy prize-winning book The Early Writings of Charlotte Bront毛 (Blackwell 1983, pb 1984), a multi-volume Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bront毛 (Blackwell, 1983, 1987, 1991), and a selection The Brontes: Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal聽聽(OUP 2010).
Her other publications include the co-authored books The Art of the Bront毛s (CUP, 1995, pb 1995), The Oxford Companion to the Bront毛s (OUP, 2003, pb 2006), and The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (CUP, 2005, pb 2009);聽 and an edition of Jane Austen鈥檚 Love and Freindship and other Youth Writings (Penguin 2014, pb 2015). She has recently published a co-authored book commissioned for the Bront毛 Bicentenary鈥 Celebrating Charlotte Bronte: Transforming Life into literature in 鈥楯ane Eyre鈥 (The Bront毛 Society and Bront毛 Parsonage Museum, 2016).
She has also taught and published on Victorian,聽聽Romantic, and gothic literature;聽Jane Austen, critical editing, literary juvenilia, and literature and landscape gardening; and she is director and general editor of the Juvenilia Press, an international non-profit research and pedagogic enterprise hosted by 91色情片. She is currently working on the Bront毛s and聽visual arts; Jane Austen and landscape; literary juvenilia and the child writer; and a Bront毛 critical editing project聽with CUP, funded by an ARC Linkage Grant in partnership with the British Library, Bront毛 Parsonage Museum UK, and Morgan Library in New York.
Research Interests:
The Bront毛s; Jane Austen; literary juvenilia and the child writer; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature; the relationship between literature and landscape; bibliography and critical editing.
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- ARC Senior Research Fellow (1993-8)
- Awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the Study of English Literature.
- Appointed a Scientia Professor in 2007.
- ARC Linkage Project (1919-2022)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1994鈥); ARC Senior Research Fellow (1993-8); Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW (2019鈥).
My Teaching
Professor Alexander has taught at all levels, both in Australia and overseas, chiefly in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and in women鈥檚 studies. She is currently working on the Bront毛s and the visual arts; Jane Austen and landscape; and on an ARC-funded project on literary juvenilia and the child writer. She welcomes research students in these or related fields.