David Carter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Recent books include Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840s–1940s (2018, with Roger Osborne) and Always Almost Modern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1997) won the Walter McCrae Russell Award for literary studies.
'What are novels for? One answer would be that they are for academics to find interest in and make researchable and teachable. … David Carter and his team have done a great job of showing how it's done.' Nicholas Jose, The Conversation