Rate My Professor Wayne Cristaudo

Wayne Cristaudo is a Professor of Political Science at Charles Darwin University, within the School of Creative Arts and Humanities. Before joining CDU, he taught politics and then European Studies at the University of Adelaide. He subsequently held positions at the University of Hong Kong, serving as Coordinator of European Studies and later as Division Head of West Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Professor Cristaudo has also lectured in Europe, the USA, and China, bringing over three decades of academic experience to his interdisciplinary scholarship. His career reflects a commitment to exploring the intersections of politics, philosophy, and culture across diverse institutional settings.

Professor Cristaudo's research interests center on the nature of human beings, the history and nature of ideas, social and political institutions, and how these elements shape the characters of peoples and nations. His broad, interdisciplinary work encompasses political and social theory and philosophy, metaphysics, literature, love and evil, and the Western tradition. He has delved into the social and political dimensions of religion, particularly Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and is currently writing a book on these interconnected themes. Key publications include Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy (2020), Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolutionaries (2012), A Philosophical History of Love (2012), Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought (2006, co-edited with Wendy Baker), Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon (2003, with Peter Poiana), and Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged (2008). He has contributed numerous peer-reviewed articles and book reviews, such as “Speech is a Continuum” (2023), “A Prophesy of Modern Conceit,” “Unravelling America,” “On Being Observant: From Descartes to Mike Tyson and Teddy Atlas,” and “On the social significance of the divinity of speech: From Hegel's anti-dualist metaphysics to speech thinking.” Professor Cristaudo has supervised higher degree by research theses across a wide range, from European politics and development and international politics to literature and social and political philosophy. He has delivered lecture series on the History of Political Thought and Revolution at Charles Darwin University.