Chris Conti

Chris Conti is a Lecturer at Western Sydney University and a member of its Writing and Society Research Centre. He is the author of Proofs: 104 short stories (2012).

Works By Chris Conti

Running Man: Coach Fitz by Tom Lee
Lee is by turns satirist and survivor of the New Victorianism. On a jog through Woollahra’s Trumper Park, Tom dreams conventional dreams of a house in the bush, a place for he and a loving partner to raise ‘a number of virile and sensitive childre...
15 Apr. 2019
Did It Really Happen?: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, which turns fifty this year, owes a share of its longevity to the modern folklore of vanished white women that has swirled around sites like Hanging Rock in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges since the nineteenth cent...
28 Sept. 2017
Grenville on the Frontier
The Secret River is best read in terms other than those Grenville has framed for it. The historical novel in the realist mode will never escape the sort of criticism pointed at Grenville: departing from the historical record and projecting the pre...
4 May. 2017
Rewriting the American Myth: Failed Frontiersmen
‘As the mythic space of the American imagination, the frontier has never closed. It remains the place where America conceives its identity, its values, and its destiny.’ Chris Conti on a new book about the enduring impact of frontier mythology on
17 Dec. 2015

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Chris Conti

Works By Chris Conti

Running Man: Coach Fitz by Tom Lee

Did It Really Happen?: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Grenville on the Frontier

Rewriting the American Myth: Failed Frontiersmen