Rachael Weaver

Rachael Weaver

Rachael Weaver is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in English at the University of Melbourne. She worked on an ARC Discovery Project with Ken Gelder which has involved developing an extensive digital archive of popular colonial Australian literary texts — Colonial Australian Popular Fiction: A Digital Archive at the University of Melbourne Library.

She is author of The Criminal of the Century (Arcadia/ASP, 2006), and co-editor with Ken Gelder of four anthologies of colonial Australian popular fiction published by Melbourne University Publishing.