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PROF KEN GELDER



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/ken-gelder.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5485
Fax: +61 3 8344 5494
Room: 234
Level: 02
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
History & analysis of popular culture; Postcolonialism & globalisation in literature and culture; Australian & indigenous literatures & cultures Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
History & analysis of popular culture; Postcolonialism & globalisation in literature and culture; Australian & indigenous literatures & cultures Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
History & analysis of popular culture; Postcolonialism & globalisation in literature and culture; Australian & indigenous literatures & cultures Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts with Honours Flinders University of South Australia 31-Dec-1976
Master of Arts Flinders University of South Australia 31-Dec-1981
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Stirling 31-Dec-1985

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Australian fiction 1989 to 2005, and its national and global infrastructures Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Evaluating the Australian Popular Fiction Archive: A Definitive Critical History and Bibliography of Early to Late Colonial Genre Writing Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

Journal Articles

  • Subcultures, Maladjustment and the Problem of 'Revolt'
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Antithesis
    Volume: 19
    Issue: exhibitionism
    Page numbers: 196-199
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • The Anthology of Colonial Australian Fiction
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • Subculture, bicycles and motorcycles


    Year: 2008
    Book: Vrroooom - Motorbike design
    Publisher: Danish Museum of Art & Design(Copenhagen)
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  • Colonial Australian Crime Fiction
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Criticism and Fiction in Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 192
    Issue: 192
    Page numbers: 71-76
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Major Reference Works

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Subcultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies 4 vols
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • Australian Gothic
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Routledge Companion to Gothic
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • Introduction: Chicago, Birmingham, Scenes and Communities
    Year: 2007
    Book: Subcultures: Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies vol.2
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • Introduction: Sexed Subjects, Virtual Communities, Neo-Tribes
    Year: 2007
    Book: Subcultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies Vol.4
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • Introduction: Subcultural Histories
    Year: 2007
    Book: Subcultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies Vol 1
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • Introduction: Subcultures and Music
    Year: 2007
    Book: Subcultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies Vol.3
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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  • The Colonial Australian Gothic
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Epic fantasy and global terrorism
    Year: 2006
    Book: From Hobbits to Hollywood: essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the rings
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Politics and monomania: the rarefied world of contemporary Australian literary culture
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 184
    Issue: September
    Page numbers: 48-56
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  • When the imaginary Australia is not uncanny: nation, psyche and belonging in recent Australian cultural criticism and history
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 86
    Issue: July
    Page numbers: 161-173
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • The Subcultures Reader
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction: Outside Cultural Studies: Critiques and Alternatives
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: Scenes of Music
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: Sexed Subjects
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: Style, Fashion, Signature
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: Territories, Space, Otherness
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: The Birmingham Tradition and Cultural Studies
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: The Chicago School and urban ethnography
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Introduction: Virtual, Mediated, Globalized
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • The 'UnAustralian' Goth: Notes Towards a Dislocated National Subject
    Year: 2005
    Book: Making the Middle Ages: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian culture
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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  • The Field of Subcultural Studies
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Subcultures Reader
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Plagued by Hideous Imaginings': The Despondent Worlds of Contemporary Australian Fiction.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 179
    Issue: Winter 2005
    Page numbers: 32-37
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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  • Notes on the Research Future of Australian Literary Studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Humanities Review
    Volume: December
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: La Trobe University Library(Melbourne)
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  • Reading Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Humanities Review
    Volume: July
    Issue: 36
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: La Trobe University Library(Melbourne)
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  • The Man of Feeling. Review of Haunted Earth by Peter Read
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1 March 2005
    Page numbers: 414-420
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Us, Them & Everybody Else: the New Humanities in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 181
    Issue: Summer 2005
    Page numbers: 54-63
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Popular Fiction: The logics and practices of a literary field
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Media, Culture & Society
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 876-877
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human, by Amanda Fernbach
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Media, Culture & Society
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 857-858
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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  • Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth, ed. Bruce Bennett et al
    Year: 2003
    Journal: JAS Review of Books
    Volume: 19
    Issue: October 2003
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Studies Centre, Curtin University of Technology(Perth)
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  • The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination, by Richard Nile
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 186-189
    Publisher: Association for the Study of Australian Literature(Brisbane)
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  • Epic fantasy and global terrorism
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 173
    Issue: Summer 2003
    Page numbers: 21-27
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Haitian Voodoo as a Postcolonial Symptom / In "The Forest of Human Becoming": Haitian Voodoo, Culture and Counterculture
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Paradoxa
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 77-92
    Publisher: Delta Productions
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  • Magazine Wrack
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 167
    Issue: Winter 2002
    Page numbers: 76-79
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Foreword
    Year: 2001
    Book: FreeNRG: notes from the edge of the dance floor
    Publisher: Common Ground Publishing(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Recovering Australian popular fiction: towards the end of Australian literature
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Association for the Study of Australian Literature 2000 ASAL conference
    Conference Publication: Australian literary studies in the 21st century
    Page numbers: 112-120
    Publisher: Association for the Study of Australian Literature(Hobart)
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