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Student, Teacher, Friend: Chris Wallace-Crabbe and the University of Melbourne

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posted on 2023-05-24, 05:11 authored by Katherine Darian-SmithKatherine Darian-Smith
When Chris Wallace-Crabbe first came to the University of Melbourne, it was by a circuitous route. Completing his school years at Scotch College, he had qualified for a Bachelor of Science degree. Instead, he went to work as a cadet metallurgist at the Royal Mint, followed by national service in the Royal Australian Air Force. Abandoning early aspirations to be an industrial .chemist, Chris was increasing drawn towards the study of literature and an awakening love of modernist poetry through his reading of Penguin Modern Classics. In February 1953, he enrolled part-time in a Bachelor of Arts degree, entering an institution then widely known in 'a youthful vernacular which misrepresented our true feelings about a beehive of excitement' as The Shop. Chris's association with the University of Melbourne was to continue for the next six decades: as an undergraduate and graduate student; then as a lecturer, doctoral supervisor, teacher, mentor, colleague, somewhat reluctant administrator and head of department, and distinguished poet-professor.

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Publication title

Travelling Without Gods: A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion

Editors

C. Atherton

Pagination

89-97

ISBN

9780522864519

Department/School

College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Place of publication

Melbourne, Australia

Extent

32

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Copyright 2014 Individual contributors

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