Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His authored books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Uncanny Australia (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 New Vampire Cinema (2012). His edited books include The Subcultures Reader (2005) and (with Rachael Weaver) The Colonial Journals, and the emergence of Australian literary culture (2014). His most recent book, with Rachael Weaver, is Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017), published by Sydney University Press.