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Prof

Ken Gelder

Honorary
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
literature
literary reviews
social sciences
cultural studies
humanities, multidisciplinary
arts & humanities - other topics
literature, african, australian, canadian
kangaroo hunt
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Prof

Ken Gelder

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Contemporary literature and culture
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Projects

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Eco-Colonial Australian Literature: Environment, Species, Climate

This project aims to consider how colonial Australian literary writing shaped Australia's environmental consciousness. It will explore how c..

2017 - 2022
Completed
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Populating the Nation: A Genealogy of Colonial Australian Character Types

This project investigates the vast array of character types mobilised by colonial writers in Australia from the mid-1800s to the beginning o..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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The Hugh Williamson Australian Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship

2013 - 2014
Completed
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The Circulation of Colonial Literary Culture in Australia: Mapping the Literary Magazines and Periodicals

Colonial magazines were a vibrant part of Australia's emergent literary culture. They fashioned new writers, investing in local identities w..

2011 - 2014
Completed
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Evaluating the Australian Popular Fiction Archive: A Definitive Critical History and Bibliography of Early to Late Colonial Genre Writing

This project analyses and evaluates Australian popular or genre fiction from the early to the late colonial period: from around the 1840s to..

2007 - 2009
Completed
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Australian fiction 1989 to 2005, and its national and global infrastructures

This project is a systematic analysis of Australian fiction published between 1989 and 2005: after the Australian Bicentenary and into the n..

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 112 for Ken Gelder.

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Are the humanities 'demoralised'? A response to Simon During

Kenneth Gelder

Journal article  |  2022  |  Overland

A critical response to an article in The Conversation on the humanities by Simon During

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The Weeping Kangaroo

Rachael Weaver, Ken Gelder

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Irish Republicanism and the Colonial Australian Bushranger Narrative

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australian Literary Studies

This article examines a range of colonial Australian Irish bushranger narratives in terms of their investments in revolutionary re..

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The transnational kangaroo hunt

Kenneth Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter looks at the earliest stages in the transnationalisation of the kangaroo and the kangaroo hunt, turning to an English..

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On the Hunt

Kenneth Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Journal article  |  2021  |  Imprint

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The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Book  |  2020

From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver exam..

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Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter argues that the kangaroo hunt in colonial Australia – far from being a minor recreational event – in fact gives settl..

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"Kangarooing and The Last Leap"

Kenneth Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Book Chapter  |  2020

The Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest comprises a rich and sometimes unexpected variety of art, books and objects. A scientist, bus..

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The Australian Kangaroo Hunt Novel (1830–1858) as *Bildungsroman*

Ken Gelder, R Weaver

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Literary Studies

In Australia – and no doubt in other outposts of empire – hunting provided a rite of passage for ambitious young men to learn abou..

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Adapting Bestsellers: Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds

Ken Gelder

Book  |  2019

This book looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other ..

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Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Communication
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Screen and Digital Media
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Cultural Studies
Historical Studies
Other Culture and Society

News

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Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas?

Ken Gelder

I’ve seen two stage versions of English writer Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. One I saw in Glasgow in 2011 – an intimate, warm adapta..

December 20, 2022
pursuit Article
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Kangaroo hunting in colonial Australia

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

In 1848, the Scottish explorer Thomas Mitchell wrote “fire, grass, kangaroos, and human inhabitants, seem all dependent on each other for e..

March 15, 2020
pursuit Article
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Friday essay: the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Since the beginnings of settler occupation in Australia, the kangaroo has been claimed at once as a national symbol and as a type of vermin..

August 30, 2018
conversation Article
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The case for Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter

Ken Gelder

If you had to argue for the merits of one Australian book, one piece of writing, what would it be? See the end of this article for informat..

May 4, 2014
conversation Article
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The pathway to cultural leadership is still through education

Ken Gelder

The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Ken Gelder pond..

February 27, 2014
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Culture and Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

The University of Stirling

Master of Arts

Flinders University of South Australia

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Flinders University of South Australia

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