Maggie Nolan is the incoming Director of AustLit, and Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. Previously, she was an Associate Professor in Australian Studies at the Australian Catholic University, where she has been a teaching-research academic and Deputy Head of the School of Arts. Her research is broadly in the field of Australian Literary Cultures, and she published widely on literary hoaxes and imposture, contemporary Australian Indigenous literature, cultures of reading and reception and most recently Irishness in Australian literature. Maggie was a co-editor of the Journal of Australian Studies between 2010 and 2020.

Areas of interest: Book clubs, Sociology of literature, Reading and reconciliation, Public life of books

Nolan, M. (2021). An Australian Ethics of Reading?”. In J. Gildersleeve (Ed.), Companion to Australian Literature (pp. 171–178). Routledge.

Nolan, M. (2016). Reading Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance: Book Clubs and Postcolonial Literary Theory”. Journal for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL), 16(2). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/11293

Nolan, M. (2020). Reading Massacre: Book Club Responses to Landscape of Farewell. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 62(1), 73–96. https://doi.org/10.7560/TSLL62104