Ken Gelder (Author) Ken Gelder is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His 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), After the Celebration- Australian Fiction 1989-2007 (2009, with Paul Salzman) and, with Rachael Weaver, Colonial Australian Fiction (2017) and The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (2020). Rachael Weaver (Author) Rachael Weaver is an ARC Future Fellow in English at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of The Criminal of the Century (2006) and, with Ken Gelder, The Colonial Journals, and the emergence of Australian literary culture (2014), Colonial Australian Fiction- Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017), and The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (2020).