Christina is interested in the intersections between literature, history, memory, and politics. She has published about Australian war writing, the teaching of Shakespeare in the Third Reich and socialist East Germany, and the extraordinary reception of Australian books behind the Berlin Wall. She is currently researching a socialist publishing program, run out of East Berlin during the Cold War.
She holds a PhD from the University of Freiburg and an undergraduate degree from the University of Tübingen (Staatsexamen). She is the ACT representative of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and a member of the advisory board of the Teaching and Learning War network.
I am a recipient of a 2016 Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. Most recently, I have convened the following courses:
Christina has spoken on ABC Radio National and ABC television about Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and the literature of the First World War more broadly. You can listen to her here and here and here. An interview with SBS German radio on the publication of Australian books in East Germany is here. She was an invited speaker at the WeberWorldCafé, Narrating the First World War: Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives, held at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin on 16 September 2014.
Twitter: @ChSpittel
PhD Supervision:
Carolyn Carr, New Zealand Troopship Magazines of the First World War (jointly supervised with Dr John Connor)
Noahlyn Maranan, Does social media improve democracy in the Philippines? (jointly supervised with Professor Anthony Burke)
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