Mr Chrystopher Spicer ~ Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Research Disciplines

• Literary studies (4705)
• Anthropology (4401)
• Architecture (3301)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• Communication (1302)
• culture and society (1399)

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Journal Articles

• Spicer C (2022) “Plenty of business going on”: The Apocalyptic Cyclones of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Trope of Real, Imagined, and Spiritual Australian Place. Motifs, 6.
• Lundberg A, Ngalamulume K, Segata J, Termizi A and Spicer C (2021) Pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics: critical inquiries from arts, humanities and social sciences. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 20 (1).
• Spicer C (2021) Louis Becke's Modern Buccaneer: The transformation of William 'Bully' Hayes into the first modern literary pirate of the Pacific. Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 1 (2). pp. 73-108
• Spicer C (2021) The Granite and the Rainbow: Towards a New Biography of Louis becke. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 21 (2).
• Spicer C (2021) The Memory of Love: The Springthorpe Memorial in Australia as Haptic Memoryscape. Markers, 37. pp. 92-119
• Spicer C (2021) Weep For the coming of men: epidemic and disease in Anglo-Western colonial writing of the South Pacific. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 20 (1). pp. 273-293
• Spicer C (2016) "The Cyclone which is at the Heart of Things": the cyclone as trope of place and apocalypse in Queensland literature. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 15 (2). pp. 58-68
• Spicer C (2016) "Big wind, he waiting there": Vance Palmer's cyclones of apocalypse and their power of revelation. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 15 (1). pp. 101-107

Books

• Spicer C (2020) Cyclone country: the language of place and disaster in Australian literature. McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA
• Spicer C (2017) The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller. McFarland and Company, Jefferson, NC, USA
• Spicer C (2002) Clark Gable: biography, filmography, bibliography. McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina

Other research outputs

• Spicer C (2012) Great Australian World Firsts: the things we made, the things we did. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, NSW

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 14+ research outputs authored by Mr Chrystopher Spicer from 2002 onwards.