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Ken Gelder

Emeritus Professor Ken Gelder

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2016
  • Section(s): English, Cultural And Communication Studies

Biography

Ken Gelder is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, retiring in 2023. He is internationally known for his work on popular fiction, genre cinema and subcultures, and both nationally and internationally renowned for his work in contemporary and colonial Australian literary studies. Key publications include Reading the Vampire (Routledge, 1994), Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (Melbourne UP, 1998: with Jame M. Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge, 2004) and Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (Routledge, 2007). He is co-author, with Rachael Weaver, of Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations, and the Colonial Economy (Sydney UP, 2017), The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (Melbourne UP, 2020) and Colonial Adventure (Melbourne UP, 2024).

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.