Doctor Christopher Conti
Senior Lecturer,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
Dr. Christopher Conti is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. His primary research interests and teaching experience are in the fields of modernist and contemporary literature and philosophy and literature. He has written articles on Theodor Adorno, John Barth, Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and Patrick White. He is also the author of Proofs: 104 short stories (Puncher & Wattmann, 2012).
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Professional Memberships
- Australasian Association for Literature (AAL) (2009)
- Writing and Research Centre, UWS (2013)
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Humanities (Arts)
Committees
- SHCA Postgraduate Conference Committee
Contact
| Email: | c.e.conti@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9160 |
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| Location: | EQ.G.09 Parramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- CART7020 Writing and Form, 2022
- LANG3059 Law, Literature and Culture, 2023
- LANG3094 The Value of Literature, 2022
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Conti, C. (2021), 'The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth (1960)', Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO 9781440853586.
- Conti, C. (2021), 'Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)', Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO 9781440853586.
- Conti, C. (2021), 'Barth, John (1930-)', Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO 9781440853586.
- Conti, C. (2021), 'Heller, Joseph (1923-1999)', Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO 9781440853586.
- Conti, C. and Gourley, J. (2014), 'Introduction', Literature as Translation/Translation as Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443854948.
- Conti, C. (2014), 'Mystical translation in Patrick White's Voss', Literature as Translation/Translation as Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443854948.
- Conti, C. (2012), 'The primacy of the object : Adorno versus cultural studies', Literature and Politics: Pushing the World in Certain Directions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443835749.
- Conti, C. (2010), 'American History as a History of Self-Making: John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor', Remaking Literary History, Cambridge Scholars Press 1443814245.
- Conti, C. (2009), 'Sensation at odds with itself: Adorno on aesthetic negativity', Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars Press 144380116X.
- Conti, C. (2004), 'Critique and form : Adorno on Godot and Endgame', After Beckett / D'apres Beckett, Brill / Rodopi 9789042019720.
Journal Articles
- Conti, C. (2023), 'Metaphysical horror in Samuel Beckett', Twentieth-Century Literature, vol 69, no 3 , pp 329 - 362.
- Conti, C. (2023), ''Tipping the scales' : introduction to Australian literary studies literary value special issue', Australian Literary Studies, vol 38, no 2 .
- Conti, C. (2023), 'Teaching the value of literature (and other paradoxes)', Australian Literary Studies, vol 38, no 2 .
- Conti, C. (2021), 'God bothering Beckett', Literature and Theology, vol 35, no 2 , pp 220 - 241.
- Conti, C. (2021), 'Endgame and the life to come', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, vol 33, no 1 , pp 121 - 135.
- Conti, C. (2021), 'Introduction : Samuel Beckett and the afterlife', Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, vol 33, no 1 , pp 1 - 13.
- Conti, C. (2019), 'Running Man: Coach Fitz by Tom Lee', Sydney Review of Books, vol 15 April 2019 .
- Conti, C. (2018), 'The public enemy is a woman', Sydney Review of Books, vol 25 October, 2018 .
- Conti, C. (2017), 'Grenville on the frontier', Sydney Review of Books, vol 4 May .
- Conti, C. (2017), 'Did it really happen? : Picnic at Hanging Rock', Sydney Review of Books, vol 29 September .
- Conti, C. (2016), 'The trial of David Lurie: Kafka's courtroom in Coetzee's Disgrace', Textual Practice, vol 30, no 3 , pp 469 - 492.
- Conti, C. (2015), 'Justice for Josef K. : bringing myth to an end in Kafka's trial', New German Critique, vol 42, no 1 , pp 99 - 128.
- Conti, C. (2015), 'Rewriting the American Myth', Sydney Review of Books, .
- Conti, C. (2012), 'The aesthetic alibi in The End of the Road', Modern Fiction Studies, vol 58, no 1 , pp 79 - 111.
- Conti, C. (2011), 'Nihilism Transformed Narratively: the Agency of Art in The Sot-Weed Factor', Papers on Language and Literature, vol 47, no 2 , pp 141 - 161.
- Conti, C. (2010), 'Gruelling', Island Magazine, , pp 141 - 142.
- Conti, C. (2005), 'Irony, Cynicism and Satire in The Floating Opera', Arizona Quarterly, vol 61, no 4 , pp 127 - 160.
- Conti, C. (2004), 'The Confessions of Todd Andrews: Double-Directed Discourse in The Floating Opera', Studies in the Novel, vol 36, no 4 , pp 533 - 551.
- Conti, C. (2001), 'Aesthetic Self-Regard and Artful Self-Delusions: Some Political Implications of John Barth's Aesthetics', Literature and Aesthetics, vol XI , pp 75 - 96.
Other Publications
- 2012, 'Proofs', Published Work
- 2010, ''Miserably.' The Driftwood Review 8', Published Work
- 2010, ''Uxorious.' Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine', Published Work
- 2010, ''The Novel Inside.' Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine', Published Work
- 2009, ''The Impostor Theory of Art.' Etchings', Published Work
- 2009, 'Southerly', Published Work
I am currently working on a redescription of Samuel Beckett's work in terms of metaphysical horror.
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Alexis Wright's Literary Sovereignty and a Self-Governing Indigenous World Literature. |
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| Thesis Title: | Houston, Do You Read |
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| Thesis Title: | Aletheia: Disclosing the story of a life through narrative, time and body |
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| Thesis Title: | Representations of the everyday in relation to time and traumatic history |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | <p>Mindstyle in <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>: A Functional Analysis of Language</p> |
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| Thesis Title: | Postapocalypse Reimagined: Catastrophe, Capitalism and Simulation in Briohny Doyle?s The Island Will Sink |
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| Thesis Title: | Sovereignty, Place and Possibility in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book |
| Field of Research: | Written Communication |
| Thesis Title: | Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance. |
| Field of Research: | Studies In Human Society |
| Thesis Title: | The McMillan Notes: Exploring the Gippsland Massacres through Historiographical Metafiction |
| Field of Research: | Language And Literature |
| Thesis Title: | <i>The McMillan Diaries</i>> and Grief, Trauma and Letting go in Mark Z. Danielewski's <i>House of Leaves</i> |
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| Thesis Title: | A Portrait of the Artist as a Black Man: Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot (1961). |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Poetry in Prose: Writing the Lyrical Novel |
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| Thesis Title: | A Portrait of the Artist as a Black Man: Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot (1961) |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
Media
| Title: | 50 Years of Picnic at Hanging Rock |
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| Description: | A Panel Discussion with Genevieve Jacobs and Dr Christopher Conti |