Robin Gerster
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Robin Gerster is an Australian author
and academic. He is a Professor at the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University
. His major fields of expertise are the cultural histories of war and travel. 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, which remains the landmark study in its field. In 1988, it won the prestigious Age-Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category.
In the 1990s he held the Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo - an experience which led to the controversial travel book, 'Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan' (1999). His book, 'Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan', won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2008.
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and academic. He is a Professor at the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
. His major fields of expertise are the cultural histories of war and travel. As a postgraduate, he won the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Commonwealth of Australia...
'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, which remains the landmark study in its field. In 1988, it won the prestigious Age-Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category.
In the 1990s he held the Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo - an experience which led to the controversial travel book, 'Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan' (1999). His book, 'Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan', won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2008.