Robin Gerster

Robin Gerster is Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, and is the author of several books and numerous scholarly articles. His major publications include the cultural study of the Occupation of Japan, Travels in Atomic Sunshine (2008), the travel book Legless in Ginza (1999) and the critique of Australian war writing Big-noting (1987), along with the critical anthology of Australian travel writing, Hotel Asia (1995). Presently, he is working with Prof Melissa Miles (also of Monash) on a cultural history of Australia-Japan relations through the medium of photography.