Education
The Doctor of Philosophy-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
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Robin Gerster
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Career
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 traveling 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).
Achievements
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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. In 1988, it won the prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category. His book, Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan, won the New South Wales Premier"s Prize for Australian History in 2009.
