Robin Gerster

Robin Gerster is an Australian author and academic. He is an Associate Professor at the School of English at Monash University. His major field of expertise is Australian war literature. As a postgraduate, he won the Australian War Memorial's inaugural C.E.W. Bean Scholarship, for his research project on the heroic theme in Australian war writing. The PhD-thesis which emerged from this research was subsequently published as "Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing", and remains a landmark study in its field. In 1988, it won the prestigious Age-Book of the Year Award in the category non-fiction.

Bibliography

*"On the Warpath: A Critical Anthology of Australian Military Travel", Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. (Co-editor with Peter Pierce)
*"Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan", Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999.
*"Hotel Asia: Australian Literary Travelling to 'the East' ", Penguin, Ringwood, 1995.
*"Seizures of Youth: 'The Sixties' and Australia", Hyland House, Melbourne, 1991.
*"Big-noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing", Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987. Revised paperback ed., MUP, 1992.