Rate My Professor Christina Spittel

Dr Christina Spittel serves as Senior Lecturer in English and Media Studies and Postgraduate Research Coordinator in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. She holds a PhD from the University of Freiburg and a Staatsexamen undergraduate degree from the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on the intersections between literature, history, memory, and politics, including Australian war writing, the teaching of Shakespeare in the Third Reich and socialist East Germany, and the reception of Australian literature behind the Berlin Wall. Current projects encompass her forthcoming book Based on a true Story: The First World War in the Australian Novel, under contract with Sydney University Press, which traces Australian novelists' engagement with the Great War from 1914 to the centenary. She leads an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) project (DE180101150) on Seven Seas’ English-language paperbacks and the Cold War bookshelf. Additional initiatives include the AHRC-funded Teaching and Learning War Network and a DAAD-funded collaboration with Free University Berlin on transnational cultures of First World War remembrance.