Dr Rachael Weaver
Research Fellow, English
Qualifications
MA (University of Melbourne), PhD (University of Melbourne)
Biography
Rachael Weaver is a past creative fellow of the State Library of Victoria and a current research fellow in English at the University of Melbourne.
Current research
Research Fellow on Ken Gelder's ARC Discovery Project on Colonial Australian Popular Fiction, 2007-2009 .
Knowledge transfer
Public lectures
- 'Bigamy, Theft and Murder: Popular Culture and the Deeming Case,' Public Records Office of Victoria, North Melbourne, 22 May 2007.
- 'Defending the Homestead: Aboriginal and Settler Violence in Colonial Australian Popular Fiction.' State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 March 2006.
- 'Locating Cultural History: Melbourne as Text and Context: Panel Discussion,' ASAL Conference, Melbourne, 5-8 July, 2001.
Publications
In-press
- (Co-edited with Ken Gelder) The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction. Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, Forthcoming, 2008.
Books
- The Criminal of the Century Melbourne: Arcadia/Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006.
- (Co-edited with Ken Gelder) The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction. Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2007.
Book chapters
- 'The Windsor Murder.' On Murder 2: True Crime Writing in Australia. Ed. Kerry Greenwood. Melbourne: Black Ink, 2002. 33 – 43.
Journal articles
- 'Reflecting the Detectives: Crime Fiction and the New Journalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Australia.' Australian Literary Studies 22.1 (2005): 61 − 72.
Catalogue essays
- Catalogue Essay, Benjamin Armstrong solo exhibition, Project Space RMIT University, 24 July – 18 August 2006.
Reviews
- 'Histories of the Present.' Overland 187 (2007)
- 'Saving Words.' Overland 181 (2005): 97 – 98.
- 'Imagined Futures, Intimate Pasts.' Overland 177 (2004): 93 – 95.
- 'Seven Versions of an Australian Badland by Ross Gibson.' Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 2 (2003): 193 – 95.
- 'Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams by Meg Tasker.' Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 1 (2002): 94 – 96.
Radio, television and digital media
- Panel Discussion with Ken Gelder and Gerry Turcotte on Australian Gothic Fiction, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 23 March, 2007.