Will Christie

A graduate of the universities of Sydney and Oxford, Will Christie was professor and head of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University until his retirement in 2021. His many publications in the area of Romantic studies includes Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2006), awarded the NSW Premier’s Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship in 2008, and The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays (Sydney University Press, 2016).

Will is known to members of the State Library of NSW for a series of lectures, ‘A Foreign Country: Travels from the Past to the Present’, that he co-ordinated and helped deliver for the Library in 2021. For many years president of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia and an active member of a number of Sydney literary societies, Will is also the author of Under Mulga Wood (2004), an award-winning play for voices that has enjoyed performances around Australia and been broadcast and recorded by the ABC.