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1 Christina Spittel Review of Nathan Hobby, The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard Christina Spittel , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , no. 8 2024;

— Review of The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard Nathan Hobby , 2022 single work biography
'‘So there’s a new book about me coming out next year’, tweeted Katharine Susannah
Prichard on 27 April 2020. ‘I wouldn’t believe everything it says.’ A photo shows
her biographer, Nathan Hobby, signing a contract with Melbourne University Press
(MUP) in an Officeworks carpark. He looks content, if a little daunted. Only slightly
delayed by the pandemic, the book, a richly illustrated, handsome volume with
generous endnotes and an extensive bibliography, produced in MUP’s Miegunyah
imprint, appeared last year. Published fifty years after her death, it is the first full
biography of Prichard.' 

(Introduction)

1 3 y separately published work icon Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic : Reading through the Iron Curtain Nicole Moore (editor), Christina Spittel (editor), London : Anthem Press , 2016 9437942 2016 anthology criticism

'An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct - even uniquely opposed - reading contexts, Reading Through the Iron Curtain has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural cold war. Working from the extraordinary records of the East German publishing and censorship regime, the authors materially track the production and reception of one country’s corpus as envisioned by another - the ninety Australian titles published in the GDR form an alternative canon, revealing a shadowy literary archive that rewrites Australia’s postwar cultural history from behind the iron curtain, and illuminate multiple ironies for the GDR as a ‘reading nation’. This book brings together leading German and Australian scholars in the fields of book history, German and Australian cultural history, Australian and postcolonial literatures, and postcolonial and cross-cultural theory, with emerging writers currently navigating between the two cultures.' (Publication summary)

1 Because It Was Exotic, Because It Was So Far Away : Bernhard Scheller in Conversation with Christina Spittel Christina Spittel (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic : Reading through the Iron Curtain 2016; (p. 239-248)

Interview with German critic Bernhard Scheller in Windmühlenstraße, Leipzig.

1 'To Do Something for Australian Literature' : Anthologizing Australia for the German Democratic Republic of the 1970s Christina Spittel , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic : Reading through the Iron Curtain 2016; (p. 187-208)
1 Introduction : South by East : World Literature's Cold War Compass Nicole Moore , Christina Spittel , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic : Reading through the Iron Curtain 2016; (p. 1-32)
1 [Review] An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis Christina Spittel , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , May vol. 40 no. 2 2016; (p. 242-243)

— Review of An Unsentimental Bloke : The Life and Works of C.J. Dennis Philip Butterss , 2014 single work biography
1 Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s Christina Spittel , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film 2014; (p. 255-272)
1 Bobbin Up in the Leseland : Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic Nicole Moore , Christina Spittel , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Republics of Letters : Literary Communities in Australia 2012; (p. 113-126)
'The reading nation m the Leseland - or at least distinct reading formations within two separate national politics - remains an important determinant in Nicole Moore and Cristina Spittel's comparative study of the reception of Dorothy Hewett's novel Bobbin Up (1959) in Australia and the German Democratic Republic. These distinct reception histories work 'as revealingly transposed opposites', as between 1949 and 1990 Australian titles published in East Germany formed 'an alternative cannon, a shadowy literary archive that rewrites Australia's post-war cultural history from behind the iron curtain.' In Australia, the networks of production and reception for Bobbin Up were focused on the Australian Book Society and the GDR on that nation's centralised cultural administration. This meant that its readerships in Australia were at once nationally distinctive but internally marginal within the wider culture of the Menzies era. Moore and Spittel's case study is also sensitive to the discursive frames - humanist, universalist, socialist and feminist - which allowed for the transnational mediation of meanings between these two distinct though internally diverse national cultures of reading. They argue that 'Eastern Bloc editions...formed threads along which literary realisation of intensely localised expressive identity, as Bobbin Up so thoroughly is, travelled beyond themselves and their reading worlds.'' (Kirkpatrick, Peter and Dixon, Robert: Introduction xv)
1 A Gallipoli Not Seen Before Christina Spittel , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 June 2012; (p. 20)

— Review of On Dangerous Ground : A Gallipoli Story Bruce Scates , 2012 single work novel
1 A Portable Monument? Leonard Mann's Flesh in Armour and Australia's Memory of the First World War Christina Spittel , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Book History , no. 14 2011; (p. 187-220)
1 Remembering the War : Australian Novelists of the InterWar Years Christina Spittel , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 121-139)
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