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Prof

Ken Gelder

Professor
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
literature
literary reviews
social sciences
literary theory & criticism
cultural studies
colonial
gothic
literature, african, australian, canadian
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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 - 2020
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

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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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Kangarooing and The Last Leap’

Kenneth Gelder, Rachael Weaver

Reference Work  |  2021

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The Weeping Kangaroo

Rachael Weaver, Ken Gelder

Book Chapter  |  2021

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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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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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Transnational Draculas

K Gelder

Book Chapter  |  2018

This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intelle..

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Thirty Years On: Reading the Country and Indigenous Homeliness

K Gelder

Book Chapter  |  2018

In October 2014 a three-day festival was held at the University of Melbourne to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the publica..

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Introduction to An Australian Bush Track

K Gelder, RA Weaver

Book Chapter  |  2018

An Australian Bush Track by J.D. Hennessey is number 4 in this series, edited by Prof Ken Gelder and Dr Rachael Weaver.

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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
Cultural Studies
Other Culture and Society
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Historical Studies

News

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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 ex..

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

Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

S.T. Gill, Kangaroo Hunting, The Death, from his Australian Sketchbook (1865). Colonial hunting clubs were established across Australia in t..

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

Ken Gelder

Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter is not your standard bushranger confessional, it's a searing document of prophecy and self-mythologisa..

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

Ken Gelder

What do Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe have in common with many other leading cultural figures? Both went to elite schools. AAP/Jane Demps..

February 27, 2014
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Professor

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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