Dr Chris Bishop
BA (Hons), PG Dip. Ed., PhD
Lecturer (Centre for Classical Studies)
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
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6125 2901
Areas of expertise
- Classical Greek And Roman History 210306
- Latin And Classical Greek Literature 200510
Research interests
- Late Antiquity
- Early Medieval History
- Classical and Medieval Reception Studies
- Medievalism
- Comic Book Studies
Publications
- Bishop, C 2020, 'Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle', in Bronwen Neil and Kosta Simic (ed.), Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 189-203.
- Bishop, C 2020, 'The Dark Gaze of Galla Placidia', in Filippo Carl?-Uhink & Anja Wieber (ed.), Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World, Bloomsbury Academic, London, United Kingdom, pp. 151-166.
- Bishop, C 2018, 'Reading Antiquity in Metro Redux', Games and Culture (July) doi:10.1177/1555412018786649
- Bishop, C 2019, 'Our own dark hearts: re-evaluating the medieval dungeon', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 15, pp. 105-126.
- Bishop, C 2017, 'The dissemblance of the constructed landscape in Ausonius' Mosella', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 13, pp. 1-17.
- Bishop, C 2016, 'Greek Warfare in Comics and Graphic Novels', in Sara E. Phang, Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly, and Peter Londey (ed.), Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio Inc, United States, pp. 202-203.
- Bishop, C 2016, Medievalist Comics and the American Century, University Press of Mississippi, United States.
- Bishop, C 2016, 'Assessing visigoth latinity in the late sixth century: The contribution of Reccared's letter to Gregory I', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 12, pp. 35-52.
- Bishop, C 2015, 'Low-Culture Receptions of Tolkien's High Fantasy: You can't always get what you want', in Helen Young (ed.), Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A Game of Thrones, Cambria Press, Amherst, New York, pp. 13-33.
- Bishop, C 2014, 'The 'pear of anguish': Truth, torture and dark medievalism', International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 591-602.
- Bishop, C 2013, 'Stretching the Truth: The 'Rack' in Anglo-Saxon England', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 9, pp. 89-111.
- Bishop, C 2011, 'Beowulf: The Monsters and the Comics', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 7, pp. 73-93.
- Bishop, C 2008, 'Fate, Virtue and the Metaphysical Winter in the Poetry of Wessex', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 4, pp. 1-15.
- Bishop, C, ed., 2007, Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.
- Bishop, C 2007, 'Uncer giedd geador: the shadows of history in Wulf and Eadwacer', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 3, pp. 87-104.
- Bishop, C, Kudrycz, W, Martyn, J et al 2007, 'Introduction: Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe', in Chris Bishop (ed.), Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 1-16.
- Bishop, C 2007, 'The 'Lost' Literature of England: Text and Transmission in Tenth-Century Wessex', in Chris Bishop (ed.), Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 76-126.
- Bishop, C 2007, 'Civilising the Savage Ancestor: Representations of the Anglo-Saxons in the Art of Nineteenth-Century Britain', Studies in Medievalism, vol. XV 2006, pp. 55-76.
- Bishop, C 2006, 'Ambiguous eroticism in the Exeter Book', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 2, pp. 9-22.
- Bishop, C 2006, 'Anglo-Saxon Ontologies of Giant', Bulletin of the Modern Language Society (Neuphilologischer Verein in Helsinki Mitteilungen), vol. 3 CVII 2006, pp. 259-270.
- Bishop, C 2005, 'The Erotic Poetry of the Exeter Book', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, vol. 1, pp. 7-26.
- Bishop, C 2004, 'Westen: the birth of The Waste Land' in Between Intrusions: Britain and Ireland Between the Romans and the Normans, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 7, pp. 79-93