Ken Gelder

Ken Gelder

Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on genre fiction, popular culture, subcultures, and the Gothic, co-written two Australian literary histories, and (with Rachael Weaver) co-edited four anthologies of colonial Australian popular fiction.

His books include the co-authored Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (MUP, 1998) and After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989–2007 (MUP, 2009). His most recent book is New Vampire Cinema(BFI/Palgrave, 2012).