Ken Gelder

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Name

Ken Gelder

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

1955

Occupations

Historian

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC).

Context

Australia

Biography

Ken Gelder is a Professor of English at The University of Melbourne. His authored books include Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998: with Jane M. Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007) and After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989–2007 (2009: with Paul Salzman). [Prints, printmaking and Philanthropy, 2019].