Vale Emeritus Professor Christopher Wallace-Crabbe AM FAHA 1934 – 2025
Chris was Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre of the University of Melbourne, of which he was a founding director. During his long and distinguished career, he was a Harkness Fellow at Yale University, and the Harvard University Chair of Visiting Professor of Australian Studies.
In 2011, Chris was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the arts, and in 2015, he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Chris wrote the introduction to Joyce Lee’s It is nearly dark when I come to the Indian Ocean.
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