Associate Professor Chris Andrews
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Associate Professor,
Humanities (Arts)
Biography
Chris Andrews studied at the University of Melbourne and taught there, in the French programme, from 1995 to 2008. He came to the University of Western Sydney in 2009. He has translated books of fiction from Spanish and French, including Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star (Harvill, 2004), César Aira's The Musical Brain and Other Stories (New Directions, 2015), Rodrigo Rey Rosa's Severina (Yale University Press, 2014), Selva Almada's The Wind that Lays Waste (Graywolf, 2019), and Kaouther Adimi's Our Riches (New Directions, 2020).
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Andrews.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Melbourne
- MA University of Melbourne
- BA University of Melbourne
- BSc University of Melbourne
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
- Humanities (Arts)
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Publications
Books
- Andrews, C. and McGuire, M. (2016), 'Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice', : Routledge 9781138916302.
- Andrews, C. (2014), 'Roberto Bola?o's Fiction: An Expanding Universe', : Columbia University Press 9780231168069.
- Andrews, C. (1999), 'Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge', : Rodopi 9789042005679.
Chapters in Books
- Andrews, C. (2018), 'La detection sauvage', Europe: revue litteraire mensuelle No. 1070-1071-1072: Roberto Bola?o, Europe 9782351500958.
- Andrews, C. (2018), 'Publishing, translating, worldmaking', The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, Cambridge University Press 9781108471374.
- Andrews, C. and McGuire, M. (2016), 'Introduction : post-conflict literature?', Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice, Routledge 9781138916302.
- Andrews, C. (2016), 'Truth, risk and trust in Rodrigo Rey Rosa's El Material Humano', Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice, Routledge 9781138916302.
- Andrews, C. (2016), 'Presentation', Ce que les Formes Veulent Dire = What Forms Mean, Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde 9781937030698.
- Andrews, C. (2015), 'Epifanias e inminencia en los cuentos de Roberto Bola?o', Bola?o en sus Cuentos, Almenara 9789082240467.
- Andrews, C. (2015), 'La contrainte, les sons et les signes visibles', Formes: Supports / Espaces, Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde 9781937030544.
- Andrews, C. (2014), 'Translation, misunderstanding and nonsense', Literature as Translation/Translation as Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443854948.
- Andrews, C. (2014), 'Introduction (to translation of Rodrigo Rey Rosa's Severina)', Severina, Yale University Press 9780300196092.
- Andrews, C. (2012), 'L'artificialite relative de la contrainte', 50 Ans de l'Oulipo: De la Contrainte a l'Oeuvre, La Licorne 9782753517103.
- Andrews, C. (2012), 'Roberto Bola?o y la incertidumbre', Fuera de Quicio: Bola?o en el Tiempo de sus Espectros, Ripio Ediciones 9789563456769.
- Andrews, C. (2011), 'El secreto del mal es un secreto', Roberto Bolano: La experiencia del abismo, Ediciones Lastarria 9789563456837.
- Andrews, C. (2011), 'Un postmodernismo discreto y seductor: El Testigo de Juan Villoro', Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la critica, Candaya 9788493890315.
- Andrews, C. (2009), 'L'informe, l'asymetrie et la monstruosite dans l'ecriture de Cesar Aira', Forme et informe dans la creation contemporaine, Noesis 9782353260263.
- Andrews, C. (2008), 'La experiencia episodica y la narrativa de Roberto Bola?o', Bola?o Salvaje, Candaya 9788493600716.
- Andrews, C. (2006), 'Estructura y etica de Nocturno de Chile', La memoria de la dictadura, Ellipses 9782729830182.
- Andrews, C. (2005), 'Algo va a pasar: Los cuentos de Roberto Bola?o', Roberto Bola?o: Una literature infinita, Centre de recherches Latino-americaines / Archivos, Universite de Poitiers 2910050236.
- Andrews, C. (2005), 'Hide and Seek: Autobiographical Secrets in the Work of Queneau and Perec', Soi-disant: Life Writing in French, University of Delaware Press 0874139171.
- Andrews, C. (2005), 'Le theatre ambulant de Claude Michel Cluny', Claude Michel Cluny: Colloque de l'universite Paris IV Sorbonne, Editions de la Difference (Les Cahiers d'Hermes 2729115587.
- Andrews, C. (2004), 'Protocol and Project: The Oulipo and the Process of Writing', Essays in Modern Italian and French Literature in Recollection of Tom O'Neill, Spunti e ricerche 0646444212.
Journal Articles
- Andrews, C. (2021), 'Craft and Automation', Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol 25, no 5 , pp 530 - 538.
- Andrews, C. (2017), 'Intertextuality and murder : Anne F. Garreta's La Decomposition and A la recherche du temps perdu', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol 54, no 1 , pp 71 - 83.
- Andrews, C. (2017), 'La potentialite en acte', Cuadernos de Filologia Francesa, vol 28 , pp 15 - 31.
- Andrews, C. (2016), 'Companionable sadness : the dense, avant-garde oeuvre of Cesar Vallejo', TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, vol 2016, no 5905 , pp 7 - 8.
- Andrews, C. (2012), 'Constraints, poetry and play in Jacques Roubaud's Parc sauvage', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol 49, no 2 , pp 142 - 152.
- Andrews, C. (2011), 'En vilo : tension narrativa y entendimiento', Dossier, , no 14 , pp 85 - 93.
- Andrews, C. (2010), 'Cesar Aira's discontinuities', HEAT, vol 22 , pp 21 - 43.
- Andrews, C. (2009), 'Paranoid interpretation and formal encoding', Poetics Today, vol 30, no 4 , pp 669 - 692.
- Andrews, C. (2007), 'Varieties of Evil', Meanjin, vol 66, no 3 , pp 200 - 206.
- Andrews, C. (2005), 'Inspiration and the Oulipo', Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, vol 29, no 1 , pp 9 - 28.
- Andrews, C. (2004), 'Numerology and Mathematics in the Writing of Raymond Queneau', Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol X1, no 3 , pp 291 - 300.
- Andrews, C. (2004), 'Wordplay and the Contextual Circle in Queneau's Petite Cosmogonie portative', French Forum, vol 29, no 1 , pp 69 - 82.
- Andrews, C. (2003), 'Constraint and Convention: The Formalism of the Oulipo', Neophilologus, vol 87 , pp 223 - 232.
- Andrews, C. (2003), 'L'Evolution des machines dans La Petite Cosmogonie portative de Raymond Queneau', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol 40, no 1-2 , pp 180 - 193.
- Andrews, C. (2002), 'The Oulipo Forty Years On', Heat, vol 3 , pp 195 - 210.
- Andrews, C. (2002), 'Game and Oracle: The Fortunes of Rrose Selavy', New Zealand Journal of French Studies, vol 23, no 1 , pp 14 - 29.
- Andrews, C. (2001), 'Proust and Fandom', Romance Studies, vol 19, no 2 , pp 160 - 172.
Other Publications
- 2020, 'The Island in the Roundabout', Published Work
- 2020, 'Our Riches', Published Work
- 2019, 'This is the Crow with the Broken Caw', Published Work
- 2019, 'Birthday', Published Work
- 2019, 'The Tyranny of Quirks', Published Work
- 2019, 'The Wind that Lays Waste: A Novel', Published Work
- 2019, 'Sense Check', Published Work
- 2018, 'Broken Guitars', Published Work
- 2018, 'Supplement Empire', Published Work
- 2018, 'Melodrome', Published Work
- 2018, 'East Side', Published Work
- 2018, 'The Linden Tree', Published Work
- 2017, 'Two Bridges', Published Work
- 2017, ''Frieze' and 'The Changes'', Published Work
- 2016, 'Ema, the Captive', Published Work
- 2016, ''Home Truths' and 'Burnt Umbrella'', Published Work
- 2015, 'The Musical Brain and Other Stories', Published Work
- 2015, 'Advanced Souvlaki', Published Work
- 2015, 'Lost-Combination Lockout', Published Work
- 2015, 'The Lilac Room', Published Work
- 2015, 'Angles and Marks', Published Work
- 2015, 'My Day for Spilling Things', Published Work
- 2015, 'Three Poems', Published Work
- 2015, 'Honey Encryption', Published Work
- 2014, 'Pacific Rim', Published Work
- 2014, 'Severina', Published Work
- 2014, 'Anvil', Published Work
- 2013, 'Strange Perfecter', Published Work
- 2013, 'Mateship', Published Work
- 2012, 'The End (I)', Published Work
- 2012, 'The Secret of Evil', Published Work
- 2012, 'Megalomania (I)', Published Work
- 2012, 'Spring, Regardless', Published Work
- 2012, 'Lime Green Chair', Published Work
- 2011, 'Prop', Published Work
- 2011, 'Sonic Age', Published Work
- 2011, 'Function Centre', Published Work
- 2010, 'Far Call', Published Work
- 2010, 'Like Le Tellier Says', Published Work
- 2010, 'The Return', Published Work
- 2010, 'By accident', Published Work
- 2010, 'Tourism I', Published Work
- 2010, 'Dithering', Published Work
- 2010, 'Rooms', Published Work
- 2009, 'The Skating Rink', Published Work
- 2008, 'Ghosts', Published Work
- 2002, 'Cut Lunch', Published Work
- 2001, 'Septuor', Published Work
Chris Andrews's main areas of research are contemporary Latin American fiction (particularly the work of Roberto Bolaño, César Aira and Rodrigo Rey Rosa) and experiments with form in twentieth- and twenty-first century French writing (with a special focus on the work of Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud).
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Andrews.
Previous Projects
| Title: | Potential Literatures: The Oulipo and Literary Invention |
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| Western Researchers: | Chris Andrews |
| Years: | 2018-04-12 - 2023-04-11 |
| ID: | P00023872 |
| Title: | Spanish America: Literary Laboratory |
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| Western Researchers: | Chris Andrews |
| Years: | 2011-01-01 - 2015-12-31 |
| ID: | P00018150 |
Supervision
Associate Professor Andrews is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | The nightmare realm: Genre practice as preserver-destroyer, a creative piece and exegesis. |
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| Thesis Title: | Addressing Whiteness: a verse novel |
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| Thesis Title: | Impossible Words Theory: Bending and Blending Horizons in Genre-Shifting Novels. |
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Previous Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Writing the Arab-Australian Narrative: The Development of New Autobiographical and Semi-Autobiographical Literature on Arab-Australian Muslim Male Identities from Western Sydney |
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| Field of Research: | Creative Arts; Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | The Content of the Avant-Garde: Subjectivity, Community, Revolution |
| Field of Research: | Literature; Other Society And Culture; Creative Arts, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Blocks of Liquid Theme: Barbara Guest Paints Out |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Ghostspeaking: Heteronyms and the Translation of Poetry |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | Vital Signs and Surface Effects: On the Affordances of the New Materialisms for the Discipline and Practice of Creative Writing |
| Field of Research: | Communication And Media Studies; Philosophy; Creative Arts, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Constraint, Pleasure and Genre in Contemporary Poetics |
| Field of Research: | Other Society And Culture |
| Thesis Title: | Echoes and Polyphones: The Choral Poetics of Dan Beachy-Quick and Passage: New Poems |
| Field of Research: | Other Creative Arts |
| Thesis Title: | The Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: Classification, Categorisation and Poetics |
| Field of Research: | Society And Culture, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Believing in Mermaids - the creation of persuasive underwater worlds in the face of disenchantment: a critical and creative response |
| Field of Research: | Creative Arts, N.e.c. |
| Thesis Title: | Listurbia: Lists as Narrative |
| Field of Research: | Language And Literature |